Coinciding with these massive cuts, which will directly worsen the health of millions of Americans, Kennedy is creating a new $20 billion agency with the Orwellian title “Administration for a Healthy America.” The central purpose of this new agency is to consolidate and eliminate numerous prevention-focused programs, including those for childhood lead poisoning, healthcare workforce development and ALS [Lou Gehrig's disease] patient registries. Funding for policy and research will be tightly controlled by Kennedy, who is launching initiatives that will serve as vehicles for anti-scientific, eugenicist policies.
Khalil:
... I believe in the innate equality of all human beings. I believe in human dignity. I believe in the right of my people to look at the blue sky and not fear an impending missile.
About the the incarceration of thousands of Japanese American citizens under the Alien Enemies Act during WWII:
[It] is a reminder that rhetoric of justice and freedom obscures the reality that, all too often, America has been a democracy of convenience. Rights are granted to those who align with power. For the poor, for people of color, for those who resist injustice, rights are but words written on water.
There is hardly anyone among Russia’s 144 million inhabitants who did not lose close relatives to the Nazi terror or in the fight against it. The 28-month siege of Leningrad alone claimed the lives of 1.1 million inhabitants of the Russian metropolis. But now the representatives of this country are to be excluded from all commemorative events, not only in the Bundestag, but also in cemeteries where tens of thousands of fallen Soviet soldiers rest.
The full meaning of this declaration should be thought about seriously. After Trump has been in office less than 100 days of his second term, one of the highest courts in America is warning that his administration’s conduct threatens to completely discredit the US government in the eyes of the American people.
Given their role as high-level defenders of corporate America and the capitalist state, such a pronouncement by Appeals Court judges is a further indication of the political crisis within the ruling elite. It is not only impoverished immigrant workers like Abrego Garcia who must fear the police-state methods of Trump and his gang of fascist criminals. American citizens, congressmen, even robed judges could be whisked away by masked federal agents and shipped off to concentration camps located wherever the military-intelligence apparatus finds convenient.
The Nazi-like claim being made by the White House is that Harvard’s refusal to accept Trump’s authoritarian assault on the independence of the institution and defense of First Amendment rights is equivalent to endorsing “antisemitism” and adopting a “political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting” position, which would justify the nullification of its tax exempt status.
Irshad was one of more than a hundred students and faculty who were arrested and banished from campus for participating in a May 2024 encampment protesting the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. At the end of May, the encampment was violently suppressed in a brutal police raid, which was followed by summary banishments for all of the students swept up in the dragnet.
Birmingham bin workers have not taken weeks of all-out strike action to win “a softer version of austerity”. They are fighting to defeat the ruthless austerity measures against them. Unite’s “debt restructuring” proposals are no different in principle from similar schemes imposed on the poorest countries in the world by the International Monetary Fund, in which debt repayments are reduced in return for an agreed program of cuts, lumbering these countries with higher long-term interest repayments and locking them into a cycle of worsening poverty and social misery.
One of Surrealism’s important artistic antecedents was the Dadaist movement. It adopted the latter’s hatred of nationalism, chauvinism, militarism, appeals to church and family— all of the watchwords employed by Europe’s elites to justify plunging the world into the first imperialist slaughter in 1914— while at the same time embracing elements of Dada’s idealism and anti-intellectualism. According to Dadaist founding member Tristan Tzara, “thought is made in the mouth.”
14. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
15. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
16. Please Join an International Online May Day Rally!
On Saturday, May 3, the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site will hold an annual International Online May Day Rally, uniting workers from across the globe in the fight against fascism, dictatorship, and war.
The return of Donald Trump to office marks a turning point in the global crisis of capitalism. His administration has rapidly advanced a fascistic agenda, dismantling democratic rights, escalating attacks on immigrants, launching a trade war, and preparing for military conflicts throughout the world. A chilling crackdown on student activists for opposing the genocide in Gaza has seen hundreds targeted, including Mahmoud Khalil, Momodou Taal, and Rümeysa Öztürk, who have faced arrests, deportation threats, and visa revocations for their courageous protests.
Backed by billionaires like Elon Musk, Trump embodies the oligarchic rule driving staggering inequality and imperialist aggression. Trump’s policies reflect the global shift of capitalist governments toward authoritarianism in the service of oligarchy— from Germany’s AfD to Italy’s Meloni and Argentina’s Milei. The ruling class worldwide is responding to the economic crisis and social opposition with militarism and repression.
These developments underscore the urgent need for a unified international movement of the working class, which is increasingly mobilizing against war, inequality, and repression. This year’s May Day rally will present a socialist program to unify workers internationally in the struggle against capitalism. It will outline a revolutionary perspective to end imperialist violence and build a society based on equality and human need.
