1. The number of personal tragedies mount as ICE conducts gestapo raids on immigrants all across the United States; hundreds of people have been injured or killed trying to circumvent Trump's wall at the US-Mexico border

2. What can a one-day strike accomplish? With a 19,000 strong workforce University of California workers are in a powerful position to carry out a fight against the assault on the working class, but the question at hand is a struggle against the Democratic party and the trade union apparatus

3. The US Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December, 2024

 The high-profile case against Mangione is being seized upon by the Trump administration to advance its bloodthirsty drive to revive the federal death penalty. However, any misguided public sentiment that has held up Mangione’s actions as a justified response to the evils of the profit-hungry healthcare system cannot counter the government’s reactionary drive to send him to his death. Individual violence is a retrograde reaction that does nothing to reform the healthcare system or ameliorate any of the scourges of American capitalism. This requires a unified, working class response based on a revolutionary socialist program.

4. Economic insanity-- US President Donald Trump's tariff measures have been launched under the banner “Made in America,” but there is not a single commodity, in the US or anywhere else, which is not the outcome of a global production process

5. European Union officials respond to global tariffs imposed by the US Trump administration by moving to impose tens of billions of euros in tariffs on US products

6. Germany's foreign minister assures Ukraine of further military aid; meanwhile a preliminary German Panzer brigade is commissioned in Lithuania, the first deployment of German combat troops to Eastern Europe since the end of World War II

 Eighty years after the fall of the Third Reich and the most horrific crimes in human history— the Holocaust of 6 million Jews and Hitler’s war of annihilation against the Soviet Union— nothing less than the complete unleashing of German militarism, including nuclear armament, is on the agenda once again. In particular, the warmongers in the media leave no doubt about this.

7. France's Overseas Minister returns to New Caledonia for "discussions" about the health of the island's future-- of a variety that could hardly be worse than it already is and one that would not detract from France's geopolitical interests in the Pacific Region

8. Among the issues a report from the Committee for Public Education in Australia addressed in a recent international online meeting are the unprecedented challenges facing Australian schools, and the financial cuts to public education in the United States taking place under its president, Donald Trump

9. The official Australian election campaign, as it’s being waged by the major parties and the corporate media, is a fairy tale. The Socialist Equality Party is alone in sounding the alarm about the danger of a global war, and in fighting to build a movement of the working class against it

10. The multinational automotive company Stellantis answers Trump tariffs by idling manufacturing plants and laying off workers across North America

11. In the latest of actions by the Trump administration to decimate public education in the United States, the Department of Education abruptly ends billions in pandemic relief funding, throwing ongoing programs in school districts across the US into chaos

12.  By nearly doubling the money to be spent on army recruitment campaigns, the UK Labour government under Sir Keir Starmer is using unemployment and cuts to welfare to drive young people into the armed forces as cannon fodder

13. A recent report from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research reports that while some in the United Kingdom enjoy a standard of living comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest are now poorer than the poorest parts of countries like Slovenia and Malta

Here is a direct link to the report

14. As a strike of video game performers in Hollywood enters its ninth month chiefly over Artificial Intelligence (AI) issues, what workers want is one thing, what their union will agree to is another

15. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality will hold public meetings in Colombo, Jaffna, and Matara as part of their campaign for the May 6 local government elections in Sri Lanka.

Jaffna
Meeting venue: YMCA Auditorium (Near Government Agent Office) in Jaffna
Date and time: April 7 at 3.30 p.m.

Colombo
Meeting venue: Colombo Public Library Auditorium
Date and time: April 9 at 4.30 p.m.

Matara
Meeting venue: Post Office Auditorium in Matara
Date and time: April 26 at 3.00 p.m.

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

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