1. An autoworker writes the World Socialist Web Site to describe the working conditions that contributed to the tragic death of a fellow worker, Ronnie Adams, at a Stellantis engine plant in Dundee, Michigan

2. Perspective:  The conflict between Harvard University and the Trump regime poses fundamental issues of democratic rights and academic freedom

In the final analysis, the defense of all democratic rights is inseparably bound up with the struggle against the capitalist system. The oligarchy that rules society cannot tolerate freedom of speech and the exercise of critical thought. It understands all too well that the power of reason, when exercised without restraint, will lead to the conclusion that capitalism is incompatible with the needs of modern society and must be ended and replaced with socialism.

3. In one of the most ruthless assaults on immigrant workers in American history, the Trump administration has launched a policy that weaponizes the Social Security Administration to erase the legal existence of thousands of living people

The scheme targets immigrants who were granted temporary legal status under the Biden administration, a status that carried no path to citizenship and no permanent protection, only the illusion of security until the political winds shifted. Trump has already started revoking their temporary status.

Their real “crime” was allowing themselves to be registered and tracked in federal databases built by Democratic administrations, which have long relied on immigrant labor while denying them lasting political rights or protections.

4. It may soon become a crime in Canada to express any opposition to the genocide taking place in Gaza

5. The violent suppression of Echoes of War, a political play by students from Butere Girls High School in Kenya, has laid bare the ruthless authoritarianism of President William Ruto’s regime, and the growing discontent among youth

6. The US Trump administration known more for its insincere prayers than for its trust of science, targets vital NASA space programs for crippling budget cuts

7. The US Trump administration, defying the Supreme Court, is using the case of Maryland father Abrego Garcia to steamroll over what remains of democratic rights in the United States

8. While other anti-genocide activists' deportation proceedings in Germany simmer, a Berlin court questioning the legality of earlier decisions, grants a temporary halt to the expulsion of a Berlin-based Irish activist, Shane O’Brien

 The IYSSE and other groups are organizing a rally in defense of the Berlin4 this Thursday, April 17 at noon in front of the main building of Humboldt University. Come along to protest with us against the deportations and to discuss what needs to be done to stop war and dictatorship

9. By a 97 percent majority, Birmingham refuse workers voted to continue industrial action against huge wage cuts and job losses being demanded by unelected Labour commissioners, who are ramming through £300 million in cuts for the UK’s second largest city

10. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site listen to striking Birmingham, UK "bin" workers explain the significance of their strike and the coordinated assault being mounted against them

11. Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in more than 40 cities across Spain to demand the right to decent and affordable housing

12. Two Socialist Equality Party candidates, Max Boddy and Warwick Dove, appear on a podcast to speak about the socialist, anti-war program they are advancing in their campaigns for the May 3 federal election in Australia

 

13. A recent report exposes the inhuman and degrading conditions in which refugees are imprisoned on military patrol boats that the Australian Labor government uses to capture and remove them

14. The National Party-led government’s plan to double defense spending as a percentage of New Zealand's GDP to prepare for US-led wars, is fully supported by its oppositional Labour Party

15. What can be learned from the released findings of the US National Transportation Safety Board regarding last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore?

16. The attempts by Latin American leaders meeting in Honduras to counter painful US tariffs by building a “multipolar world” is a reactionary illusion

17. Around 2,000 workers from Vogue Tex garment factories in Sri Lanka hold angry protests when their management, blaming US tariffs, refused to pay their annual bonus

Screenshots of the inside of a Sri Lankan garment factory

18. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

19. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help