 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington for a meeting with US President Donald Trump to give an update on the US-Israeli campaign to displace or exterminate the Palestinian people and annex their land. There have been multiple warnings from investors and business chiefs that the tariff war is threatening to bring recession to the US and globally. The Vietnamese government is clearly desperate for negotiations with the Trump administration, but all indications are that the White House will proceed with its economic shock treatment without exception. For rank-and-file action by the working class to demand the reinstatement of Columbia grad students! Instead of the international unity of the working class, expressed in the age-old slogan, "Workers of the World, Unite!" UAW President Shawn Fain embraces Trump's "America First" policies and pits workers of different countries against each other. In a sign of the enormous popular opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moves toward dictatorship, The Encampments has been met with significant support and enthusiasm. Establishment figures like Malcolm Turnbull, who are calling for a more "independent" Australian foreign policy, represent the interests of imperialism and the ruling elite, not those of working people. The rush to scrap the Darwin port lease is bound up with the Trump White House's ever-more incendiary trade war measures against China. Washington is planning to create an anti-Iran axis between Ankara, Damascus and Tel Aviv, but these plans are being hindered by the growing rivalry between the Turkish and Israeli bourgeoisies. Germany's Christian Democrats and Social Democrats prepare social cutbacks in coalition negotiations The next German government will be one of rearmament, war and class war. Business groups and economists are insisting that there must be massive cutbacks in social budgets to pay for military spending. It is more than nine months since 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. Sixty-two-year-old skilled tradesman Ronnie Adams was crushed by a motorized arm on an assembly machine he was working on. Rescue workers and survivors have described harrowing scenes while the ruling junta blocks efforts to provide aid to those in need. Speaking at a shop stewards meeting, Francis Atwoli urged the "broad-based" government to crack down on online opposition. "Social media [users], it is time you stopped propaganda. You must love your country. If you are not patriotic, even investors will exit. Otherwise, we will plunge into chaos," he declared. In a craven attempt to shield the company from accountability, TOSHA concluded that the drowning deaths of six trapped employees were "not work related." Heavy rainstorms, tornadoes and flooding struck multiple states in the US South and Midwest over the weekend, destroying structures and causing at least 23 fatalities. The executive order, bearing the misnomer "Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful," furthers Trump's efforts to establish a dictatorship by means of cracking down on demonstrations, heightening police presence and targeting agencies in the District. Thousands of workers in cities across Chile held strikes and protests against the Boric administration on April 3 while Quebec daycare workers are expanding their fight for a new contract. The bailout is a sweeping gift to Spain's largest corporations, as the working class faces an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis, stagnant wages, and spiraling rents. Since coming to power, Labour has sought to prove itself more hostile to migrants than its Conservative predecessors and the far-right Reform UK. 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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