1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC to report on the US-Israeli campaign to displace or exterminate the Palestinian people and annex their land
2. Myanmar's earthquake survivors face increased hardships due to the priorities of the ruling junta and the stinginess of the United States under the Trump administration
3. US President Donald Trump's executive order to take control of the District of Columbia furthers his efforts to establish a dictatorship by means of cracking down on demonstrations, heightening police presence and targeting agencies in the District
4. Nine months after a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election, the Department of Labor has yet to issue any response
Will Lehman in 2023
Lehman’s campaign gave voice to a widespread desire for rank-and-file
control and a growing political radicalization among the working class.
It demanded the dismantling of the bureaucracy, the defense of workers’
democratic rights, and the building of a political movement of the
working class, independent of both capitalist parties. The continued
stonewalling by the Department of Labor underscores once again the need
for workers to build new organizations of struggle, independent of the
union apparatus and the state.
5. UAW
President Shawn Fain ignores US President Donald Trump reign of terror
on US college campuses while embracing his “America First” policies
6. In advance of federal elections, and as a display of political unity behind US preparations for war against China, the Australian establishment announces plans to terminate a Chinese company’s lease of a civilian port at Darwin
7. A Socialist Equality Party candidate explains that he is standing as a candidate in Australia's upcoming federal elections to represent the working class, not the ruling elite
8. US President Donald Trump roils world markets by threatening a further 50 % hike in tariffs on goods coming from China
9. Paris, France: Two rival demonstrations take place for and against a court ruling which prevents the neo-fascist Rassemblement National political party leader, Marine Le Pen, who was convicted for embezzling, from standing in the 2027 presidential elections
10. The Socialist Equality Party in France issues a statement: the only way to stop the drive of the capitalist oligarchy towards dictatorship and war is to build an independent movement among workers and youth in a struggle for socialism
10. A sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman is tragically crushed to death while working at the Stellantis automotive engine plant in Dundee, Michigan
11. While
the working class in Spain faces an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis,
the pseudo-leftist government responds to US President Donald Trump’s
trade war tariffs with a massive US $15.66 billion corporate bailout
12. War and economic concerns push leading representatives of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats to negotiate a future government in Germany
13. Heavy rainstorms, tornadoes and flooding strike multiple states in the US South and Midwest over the weekend, destroying structures and causing at least 23 fatalities
14. A new documentary film recounting the Gaza Solidarity protests that took place at Columbia University in New York City in April 2024, The Encampments, has been met with significant support and enthusiasm
Mahmoud Khalil in The Encampments
15. Among the targets of the US Trump administration's trade war are the ASEAN countries of Southeast Asia-- especially Vietnam
16. A recent government report regarding the deaths of six Impact Plastics workers during the catastrophic flooding of Hurricane Helene last year is nothing short of a whitewash of profit-driven employer negligence
Here is a link to that report
17. Washington's plans to create an anti-Iran axis between Ankara, Damascus and Tel Aviv, are being hindered by the growing rivalry between the Turkish and Israeli bourgeoisies and Israeli missile attacks on Syrian military targets
18. Under the guise of tackling people smuggling, Sir Keir Starmer's UK Labour government hosts a 40-nation summit to outline a
common right-wing anti-immigrant, austerity agenda
19. Speaking at a shop stewards meeting, a Kenyan labor leader urges the government to crack down on online opposition
20. Workers Struggles: The Americas
Thousands of workers in cities across Chile hold strikes and protests denouncing the Boric administration’s “broken promises” on wages, working conditions, education and health
Hundreds of peasant families occupy mining and plantation lands because the Lula administration has done nothing to advance land reform despite repeated assurances
Four educators strike for 48-hours to protest the government of President Jose Raul Murino's proposals to privatize Social Security pensions
Illinois State University reaches a tentative contract heading off a strike by the union representing 650 tenured and
tenure-track faculty
- Montreal and Laval regions, Quebec, Canada:
Thousands of education workers including kitchen and office staff
employed at early childhood care centers extend a three-day strike an additional two days
- British Columbia, Canada:
1,200 medical technicians are in the eighth week of a
rotating strike to press their demands for wage equity, better health and safety
protections, and improved scheduling processes
21. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
22. San Francisco, California city legal resources for immigrants needing help
