Despite the efforts of the unions, Tempi remained very much in the air during Wednesday’s general strike, with workers and youth bringing homemade placards to demand justice.
Albanese and Dutton touted their miserable cost of living policies and promised a “better future,” under conditions of a meltdown of world capitalism triggered by Trump’s trade war.
When previous tariff increases are considered, imposed under the first Trump administration and maintained under President Biden, the tariff level against China is now around 120 percent. Nothing like this has ever been seen before.
Taking part in the 2,000-strong protest were a group of federal workers at the local facility of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), who had found out days before that they and their 400 coworkers were fired.
“It seems like we’re living in 1930s Germany all over again,” said Jonah.
After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have exacerbated the internal contradictions of Russian capitalism.
Deputy Prime Minister Peters, who advocates strengthening New Zealand’s alliance with the US, said the country should “celebrate” the fact that Trump’s tariffs on NZ goods are “only” 10 percent.
“If this government continues like this, the President will have to go by such a mass uprising again,” a resident warned.
This is how an authoritarian regime or a military dictatorship operates.
The task facing workers is smashing the union apparatus and replacing it with rank-and-file committees, real democratic organs of workers power. BFN and similar groups are being deployed in an effort to block this.
Over 20,000 auto and auto parts workers in the US, Canada and Mexico are potentially facing layoff as the impact of Trump’s tariffs begins to be felt.
Immigrants who previously entered the United States through the CPB One app are now facing “immediate” deportation by the Trump administration.
Speaking at Hamilton College in upstate New York, the ex-president sought to block students from drawing revolutionary conclusions from the deepening political crisis in America.
A gang of five unelected fascists on the Supreme Court rubber-stamped a presidential dictatorship.
Approximately 3 million public service workers in Germany are supposed to pay with their wages and jobs for the one trillion euros agreed by the government for armaments and war.
Although they have not been convicted of any crime by a court, the three EU citizens and one US citizen have been ordered to leave Germany by April 21. Otherwise, they are to be forcibly deported.
Their role is to ensure that the class struggle never breaks out of the constraints of protest politics that supposedly puts “pressure” on the Labour Party and the trade union bureaucracy.
Anger toward the Communication Workers Union’s naked collusion with the company is growing. But this opposition must be organised and prepared in advance with a worked-out strategy.
Only a building an independent movement in the workplaces and among youth to mobilize workers in struggle can halt the drive of the capitalist oligarchy towards dictatorship and war.
The demonstrations highlighted the bankruptcy of the New Popular Front in terms of leading a struggle against the far right.
