 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The direct precedent for the Trump administration's positions is the concept of Willensstrafrecht ("punishment of the will"), developed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. In the 1930s, when the world market collapsed, there arose rival trade and currency blocs and deep economic conflicts that played a role in creating the conditions for war. There are now signs that such developments are getting underway. Amid the Gaza genocide and Trump's escalating trade war, not only a US war but also a US deal with Iran would ultimately threaten war with China and Russia, who signed alliances with Iran. Friday's meeting in Brussels of the Ukraine Contact Group saw the European imperialist powers pledge over €20 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine and issue bellicose statements against Russia. The position of the US government is that under the Alien Enemies Act the president can disappear anyone to a foreign gulag and then claim they are outside any judicial review. At the University of Michigan (U-M) the federal government has revoked the visas of 22 current and former international students or otherwise terminated their right to remain in the country legally Starmer's Labour government has branded opposition to Israel's war and expressions of support for the Palestinians as antisemitic, with police making mass arrests and mounting a clampdown on student protests at university campuses. Peaceful protestors holding pillows to represent murdered Palestinian children were arrested last week in Dublin. The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world's public health infrastructure. How did the DPP rise as "the opposition" in the late 1980s? What role did the KMT and US imperialism play in this development? What do social democrats and Stalinists mean when they say "peace"? Trump first broached the issue of a patriotic sculpture garden in July 2020, using the attacks on various monuments by participants in demonstrations against police violence as his pretext. While denying plans to directly cut Social Security checks, the Trump administration is imposing job cuts, office closures and "identity-proofing" requirements designed to wreck the Social Security Administration and block seniors from applying for and receiving benefits. The meeting exposed the fraudulent character of claims by all the parliamentary parties and the corporate media that Australia is an "exception" to the crisis unfolding worldwide. All of the major parties and the media are complicit in the criminal US-led war against Russia in Ukraine and knowingly propagate the lies used the justify it. Fain attempted damage control over the UAW's embrace of Trump under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger over layoffs and attacks on democratic rights. The unions' main concern is retaining the traditional state-regulated collective bargaining system, which underpins the privileges of the caste of union functionaries, and through which they suppress the class struggle in tri-partite collaboration with the bosses and government. The ASMOF union never wanted the strike to take place, and then as soon as it was over, promised the Labor government that it would prevent any further stoppages. Teachers in Nepal fight for better pay and conditions; Sri Lankan garment workers protest unpaid New Year bonus; Shipyard workers continue rolling stoppages in South Australia; Mental health workers in Victoria impose bans for higher pay. Sri Lankan President Dissanayake guaranteed full cooperation with New Delhi, Washington's key strategic partner in South Asia as the US ramps up its confrontation with China. We are reposting an article from April 10, 2015, on 50 years since Viola Liuzzo's death, written by Helen Halyard. 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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