 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Class battles are emerging which will inevitably raise revolutionary questions. Even a defense of workers' existing low standard of living is impossible without a frontal assault of the working class against the prerogatives of the wealth. It requires expropriations and a massive redistribution of wealth back downward to the working class who created it. The day after President Trump called for Mamdani's arrest and deportation, DHS Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared the agency had "authorities it has never utilized before." The network's billionaire owner is seeking Trump administration approval for a lucrative corporate merger. California's AB 715, approved unanimously in the Assembly by Democrats and Republicans, is a draconian assault on free speech and political dissent disguised as anti-discrimination law, targeting opposition to U.S. and Israeli war crimes under the banner of "tolerance." The Parker government's attack is part of an effort to isolate and weaken the workers under conditions where there is mass support within the public for the strike. The tentative agreement was announced with zero details and a few empty phrases, in defiance of the membership that voted 90 percent to strike. As the Trump administration's illegal funding freeze triggers a nationwide cuts to public schools, the Democrats and union leaders reiterate dead-end appeals to Congress. Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers' movement. Following the publication of a devastating report detailing the involvement of major international concerns in the genocide in Gaza, a meeting to be addressed by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Bern, Switzerland was cancelled at the last moment. Today's vote pits a Labour government, led by former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer, against millions opposing the Gaza genocide and a groundswell of popular opposition to parliament's historic assault on the right to protest, freedom of speech and free assembly. The figures of yesterday's parliamentary vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill speak to two things: the weakness of Keir Starmer's Labour government and the unprincipled and spineless character of what passes for the "left" opposition within the Labour Party. The gathering, clearly directed against China, was held amid a massive escalation of US-led militarism in Europe, the Middle East and globally. Trump announced the pause on the imposition of "reciprocal tariffs" on April 9 because of the major reaction in the bond market, which indicated a financial crisis could be in the making. First of all, the well-heeled union officials have explicitly marshaled themselves for measures that will operate at the direct expense of their members in other states (and in Canada in some cases). Teachers showed their determination to fight, but Queensland Teachers Union speakers sought to divert them into appeals for a deal with the Liberal-National state government. Anyone who followed the Social Democratic Party (SPD) congress in Berlin last weekend must again answer the question—"Are there any limits to the decline and political bankruptcy of the Social Democrats?"—with a resounding "No." 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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