1. The United States sends six of its B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean— within striking distance of Iran
A 2021 description of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
2. Aimed at extracting hundreds of billions of dollars to shore up the ever-worsening trade and financial position of the United States and increasing manufacturing capacity for the military, the imposition of the new tariff regime unveiled by President Trump is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world
3. As part of its preparations for a broader crackdown on all opposition to its policies at home and abroad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government is moving to dispense with all constraints on its powers and get rid of its political opponents
4. The initiation of mass firings of over 20,000 scientists and public health workers at the Department of Health and Human Services marks an historic turning point in the collapse of American democracy
5. The fortunes of United Auto Workers union bureaucrats rocket upward while the fortunes of the autoworkers they are supposed to defend plummet
6. An absurd court ruling ends a 17-day strike by Santa Clara Valley Transportation transit workers' in an area of California that includes San Jose and much of Silicon Valley
7. Under
conditions of exploding income inequality, widespread poverty and
inflation-driven real wages cuts, Canada's establishment parties
campaign for April's federal election by offering phony “affordability”
measures that don’t even amount to a Band-Aid
8. As lecturers conclude a three-week strike, the management of Dundee University in Scotland announces as many as 632 job losses-- around one fifth of the university's entire work force
9. Several
university administrations in the United States announce that they will
fully cooperate with a right-wing congressional committee formed to
attack student anti-genocide protesters by labeling them "anti-Semitic"
10. Bellwether
elections in the US: within the political straitjacket of the US
two-party system, the only alternatives to the fascist Republicans are
right-wing, pro-corporate Democrats
11. Amid
soaring social inequality, brutal austerity measures and the
integration of New Zealand into US-led war preparations against China,
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters gives his support to an extreme
right-wing campaign making lurid and baseless insinuations that Green MP
Benjamin Doyle is a pedophile
12. The
Transport Action Workers Committee in Germany issues an open letter to Berlin
public transit workers to resist establishment efforts aimed at
preventing them from organizing an all-out strike
11. Brazil
recently marked the 61st anniversary of the US-backed military coup in
Brazil that overthrew the elected government of President João Goulart
and established a brutal dictatorship that remained in power for 21
years. Why does the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva continue to
impose a silence about it?
12. Virtually
no one believes that the last-minute election pledges-- proposed by the
main parties of the political establishment—Labor, the Liberal-National
Coalition and the Greens— would make any real difference to the lives
or prospects of workers and their families in Australia
13. After
two days of a censure debate in the National Assembly, Thailand’s Prime
Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra survives a no-confidence vote
14. Workers Struggles in Europe, Middle East & Africa:
- Metalworkers walkout for 8 hours in major cities across
Italy - About 20,000 teachers in Spain strike 48-hours
- Workers that make mechanical engineering seals strike in England
- School support staff at a primary school in London, England begin a strike
- Train drivers employed by Hull Trains in the UK strike
- Teachers in Lebanon strike 24-hours for a living wage even as their economy is collapsing
- Farmers and workers across Iran protest or strike as the country's economic and social conditions deteriorate
- Health workers and teachers strike over minimum wage in Nigeria
- Municipal workers in Eastern Cape, South Africa strike
- School students stage a protest on behalf of their unpaid teachers in Liberia
- Unpaid health workers in South Sudan walk off their jobs
15. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
16. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
