Tensions between South Asia’s rival nuclear-armed powers have been aboil since India’s government, led by the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party, blamed Pakistan for a brutal April 23 terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Indian-held Kashmir that killed 26 tourists.
New Delhi has offered no proof for its claim of Pakistani state involvement in the Pahalgam atrocity, and has rejected out of hand Islamabad’s calls for an international investigation into the attack.
2. Britain’s Royal Air Force joins the US in attacking Houthi forces in Yemen
As with the Tory’s previous military strikes on Yemen, which Labour as the main opposition party backed unreservedly, there was no parliamentary vote. But such is the unanimity among the main parties of the ruling class that this is now viewed as unnecessary.
Trump’s order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to draw up a list within 30 days of state and local governments “that obstruct the enforcement of Federal immigration laws.” They are further instructed to notify the jurisdictions that they must end their defiance of the federal government or face the consequences.
Taal’s lead attorney, Eric Lee, noted that the government openly acknowledged Taal’s supposed “involvement in certain protests” as the formal justification for his removal proceedings.
“This is the apex of First Amendment activity,” Lee said during the hearing. “Mr. Taal attended a protest. There could be nothing more important to protect under the First Amendment than that.”
Lee emphasized that “case law from the Supreme Court says very clearly that he has the protection of the First Amendment while he’s here and while that protest took place on US soil.” Lee noted that Taal was being targeted not for any crime, but for exercising his constitutionally protected rights to free speech and protest.
Kehlani, 2025
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Kehlani responded to Cornell’s disinvitation a few days later. “I am not antisemitic, nor anti-Jew. I am anti-genocide,” she said in a video on Instagram. “I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti an extermination of an entire people, I am anti the bombing of innocent children, men, women—that’s what I’m anti.”
Carney will head a vicious right-wing government that will pursue rearmament for imperialist world war, work with the European imperialist powers to ensure the war with Russia in Ukraine continues, and mount brutal attacks on the social and democratic rights of workers at home to bolster the “competitiveness” of Canadian capitalism.
The present crisis is not merely the product of the madness of Donald Trump. He is the malignant personification of tendencies and contradictions that have been building up for decades. The crisis of the dollar and the financial system resting on it is a crisis of the entire capitalist system which has no way out unless war, fascism, depression and social devastation be considered a solution.
Confronted with this historic breakdown, not a threatening storm cloud on the horizon but a present reality, the international working class must adopt and fight for its own independent socialist strategy. That will at be the very center of the May Day meeting to be held on May 3.
The layoffs are part of a wider social counterrevolution, spearheaded by the Trump administration. With the support of his Democratic Party enablers, who also serve Wall Street and are more afraid of the working class than fascism, Trump has cut over 100,000 federal jobs, is imposing sweeping consumption taxes on workers in the form of tariffs and is slashing Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security and other key social programs.
The New York Police Department officers on the scene largely stood aside as the attacks occurred, and there is no clear evidence that any of the fascist rioters have been arrested or charged.
The fascist rampage was effectively endorsed by Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who condemned the victims as “pro-terrorist antisemitic anarchists” and accused them of “attacking Jews.”
This latest police-state repression is part of the government’s drive to crush social and political opposition by establishing a presidential dictatorship that ignores the constitution and the law. To this end, the government is using its control over the judiciary as a tool of intimidation.
In contrast to the stage-managed campaign events of Labor, the Liberal-Nationals and the Greens, the SEP meetings provided an avenue for serious discussion about the political questions confronting workers, students and youth.
17. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Bogdan Syrotiuk
18. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
19. International Online May Day Rally this Saturday!
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.
