 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The large rallies headlined by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez demonstrate the growing audience for anti-capitalist, anti-war and socialist politics. But if this healthy impulse is to be developed, it must break free from Sanders and the Democratic Party. On Monday, Juan Francisco Méndez was apprehended on a street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, after immigration police smashed his car window with a pick-axe and yanked him and his wife out of the vehicle. A federal judge has temporarily halted the revoking of deportation protections for 532,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants. In this critical interview, North addresses the Marxist understanding of fascism, the historical processes that led to the rise of Hitler and the relevance for today amid the Trump administration's efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demands the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi and calls for the broadest possible resistance among workers and youth to this further assault on democratic rights. On Saturday, around 400 demonstrators protested at Leopoldplatz in Berlin's working-class district of Wedding against the deportations of refugees, including Palestinians, to Greece. All the parties of the political establishment, including the Greens, are doing everything they can, with the assistance of the corporate media, to bury all mention of the historic crimes being committed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Australian Greens, Socialist Alliance display pro-Labor, bankrupt protest politics at election forum Socialist Equality Party candidate for the Senate in Victoria, Taylor Hernan, challenged both candidates in the forum's discussion period. Workers in Israel must adopt a new political axis, in unity with and fighting for the liberation of the Palestinian masses from Zionist oppression. Although the immediate cause of the students' reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression. Prolific film biographer and historian Patrick McGilligan has written an immensely valuable and entertaining biography of the American comic-filmmaker. The WSWS spoke recently with Patrick McGilligan, author of Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham. The purpose of the IRS layoffs is to facilitate tax fraud by the wealthy and eliminate the programs their taxes help fund. Seven more major US law firms have made deals pledging hundreds of millions in legal services to Trump-approved causes, even though a fourth federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration is engaged in illegal coercion and interfering with attorney-client relationships. The World Trade Organisation has said global trade could contract by as much as 1.5 percent this year and has warned that forecasting is problematic because "there has been no directly comparable event in recent history." A 38-year-old out-of-work vehicle mechanic and former Army reservist, Cody Balmer, has been arrested for the crime. New York City's public education system is facing an impending crisis as federal, state, and local budget cuts converge with a deepening social crisis, threatening essential programs and the futures of hundreds of thousands of students. The destruction of the Head Start program, part of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society," would eliminate education and social services for nearly 800,000 children and result in the loss of a quarter of a million jobs. The re-election of Noboa was achieved on the shoulders of the military-police apparatus and of US imperialism, consolidating the direct dictatorship of the Ecuadorian oligarchy. About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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