 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The third round of "No Kings" demonstrations on March 28 drew millions of people into the streets across the United States in what was the largest single-day protest in American history. In an interview published Sunday in the Financial Times, US President Donald Trump announced his "preference" to "take the oil" from Iran—a massive expansion of the US war of aggression that would only be possible through a ground invasion of the country. While it will be greeted with outrage, Trump's decision to fix his signature to the dollar may well come to be regarded as a fitting symbol of the economic, financial, cultural and political decline of US capitalism, of which he is the personification. Actors, musicians and others have raised their voices in protests in recent months, and specifically on March 28. The growth of Reform UK was used by the Together Alliance, to mount a "get the vote out" drive for the Labour Party, backed as necessary by the Green Party. The defiance by JBS management must be answered by workers through a deepening of the struggle through the formation of rank-and-file strike committees. The DSA's role in the Los Angeles mayoral race exposes its function as an appendage of the Democratic Party in blocking the independent political mobilization of the working class. The 230 Unite union members are determined to overcome a deal failing to give them parity with their First South Yorkshire colleagues in Sheffield, just 18 miles away. Mass layoffs and strikes are taking place in industries such as metals and transport. Social Democratic Party leader Lars Klingbeil has reacted to the SPD's recent election defeats with a frontal attack on pensions, working conditions, health insurance and other social achievements. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is grovelling, to signal the loyalty of the Ugandan regime to US imperialism. The outgoing government, comprising the liberal Freedom Movement (GS), the Social Democrats (SD) and the Left Party (Levica), no longer has a majority of its own. Labor's specific travel ban on Iranians further demolishes its claim to be supporting the illegal war in order to free them from oppression or protect people in the Persian Gulf region. The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, which sits atop 120,000 tons of radioactive debris from US nuclear weapons tests, is leaking. The Trump administration's deliberate refusal to nominate a CDC director, combined with a federal injunction against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine advisory panel, exposes a systematic capitalist assault on working class public health. A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations. The PT and the pseudo-left's argument that the conviction of Bolsonaro and his military coup cabal "buried" the fascist threat in Brazil proves to be not only false, but politically complicit in its resurgence. The claims of Chinese espionage rest on anonymous confessions and unsubstantiated military claims and are being weaponized to fuel anti-Chinese racism and sabotage a possible reorientation by the Marcos administration toward Beijing. Abdul El-Sayed, "progressive" Democratic Party candidate for US Senate in Michigan, is holding rallies at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan on April 7 as part of an effort to corral students behind his pro-capitalist politics. Milošević arrested in Serbia; General strike by Israeli Palestinians; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death; Communal rioting in West Bengal 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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