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Trump dismisses hantavirus threat as outbreak spreads

The deepening hantavirus outbreak and the Trump administration’s response to it expose the catastrophic dismantling of US public health and scientific infrastructure six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Evan Blake

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

India: Karnal municipal sanitation workers strike; Bangladesh: Garment workers at Chattogram demand unpaid wages and benefits; Australia: Workers at eight Melbourne metropolitan councils walk out; Queensland Rail workers escalate industrial action.

No cannon fodder for war plans of the German ruling class!

Eighty-one years after the end of World War II in Europe, the spectres of war and fascism are back. The IYSSE calls for building an international, socialist anti-war movement against conscription and militarism.

International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)

Iran war wreaks havoc in Africa

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has driven fuel prices in Africa up by as much as 80 percent. Inflation is rising, and food production is in jeopardy, with governments scrambling to avert agricultural collapse.

Jean Shaoul

Jörg Baberowski’s Bypassing the People: Fascism as a revitalisation of democracy

Jörg Baberowski’s latest treatise, Am Volk vorbei—Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie (Bypassing the People—On the Crisis of Liberal Democracy), is being hailed and praised in countless media outlets. This can only be understood as a deliberate political campaign to secure the AfD a place in government.

Christoph Vandreier

European war flotilla en route to the Strait of Hormuz

The mission is neither peaceful nor neutral. The former colonial powers France and Britain are pursuing their own imperialist interests in the Middle East, which do not align with those of the US. The same applies to Germany and the European Union.

Peter Schwarz

Judge forces unsealing of alleged Epstein “suicide note”

A judge from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that an alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein before he was found dead in his jail cell was to be unsealed and released to the public.

Kevin Reed

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

May Day general strike in Italy heralds month of strikes against falling living standards; Unison ends long pay strike at Mining Museum in England to bolster Labour’s chances in local elections; software workers in Israel begin organisational sanctions over contracts; South African Post Office workers protest over wages and privatisation

Crisis in New Zealand government over Iran war

Foreign Minister Winston Peters, leader of the right-wing nationalist NZ First Party, released emails sent in early March which indicate that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wanted the government to express stronger support for the criminal US-Israeli war.

Tom Peters

Australia and Japan boost military ties against China

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has proclaimed that the country will play a “more proactive” role in the Indo-Pacific, amid a flurry of regional visits all directed against Beijing.

Oscar Grenfell

Mass protests in Japan against war and remilitarisation

An estimated 50,000 people gathered in the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park to mark Constitution Memorial Day, carrying banners reading “STOP Constitutional Revision and Military Expansion.”

Peter Symonds

Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British General Strike

May 4 marked 100 years since the beginning of the 1926 British General Strike. The strike, defeated after nine days, was a pivotal experience for the working class in Britain and internationally.

Chris Marsden

Further light shed on criminal US torpedoing of Iranian ship

The evasions and hypocritical declarations of “neutrality” by Colombo and New Delhi, along with the silence of the imperialist-aligned media, cannot cover up the fact that these governments were complicit in this US war crime.

Wasantha Rupasinghe

Islamist offensive tacitly backed by Paris shakes Mali

Against the backdrop of the war against Iran and Russia, the conflict between the anti-imperialist aspirations of the Malian masses and the bourgeois politics of the Malian junta is emerging ever more clearly.

Alex Lantier

Brazil’s unions isolate São Paulo education strikes

The struggles of teachers and students in São Paulo are part of a growing movement of the international working class against the austerity policies driven by the capitalist crisis and the effects of the war against Iran.

Guilherme Ferreira

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Thousands of nurses at long-term care facilities in the province of Ontario have voted to authorize strikes, while workers in Puerto Rico held May Day protests demanding the end of the Wall Street financial dictatorship over the US island colony.

Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting against US-Israeli war on Iran

SEP speakers explained that the military assault on Iran was part of US imperialism’s efforts to dominate oil and gas resources in the Middle East, as part of a far wider unfolding conflict against China and Russia.

Our reporters

This week in history: May 4-10

South African gold mine explosion kills twelve miners; Red Army Faction founder Ulrike Meinhof is found dead in her prison cell; US conducts the test preparing hydrogen bomb; British General Strike begins.

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