Dissanayake’s call for a unified national response to Washington’s new tariffs means vicious attacks on the Sri Lankan working class and the rural masses.
The US president seeks to exercise dictatorial powers against the working class, but he remains the servant of the financial markets and the billionaires.
American funding has long played a central role in sustaining the large network of non-profit and civil society organizations seeking to drive out the current ruling authorities for failing to adopt a decisively anti-Russian line.
In currency markets an index of the US dollar against a basket of a dozen of its peers fell 1.9 percent amid growing questions about what the economic war means for its status as the global reserve currency.
“The decision by the Victorian Labor state government to demolish the public housing towers is socially and politically criminal. It is directly placing profit above the interest of thousands of people.”
The demolition of public housing in Melbourne and nationally can be defeated, but that requires mobilising the power of the working class.
Despite assurances by the Chicago Teachers Union that the deal will “Trump-proof” the district, teachers worry about severe budget cuts planned by city officials and the White House.
Felipe Zapata Velázquez, a third-year international student at the University of Florida, was pulled over by Gainesville police on March 28 for traffic violations and, without a hearing, handed over to ICE officials and disappeared to a Miami-Dade detention facility. From there, he elected to return back to Colombia.
More than a month after Khalil was abducted by government agents outside his apartment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted Khalil’s deportation is based solely on his opposition to genocide.
The film is an exploration of the “border industrial complex,” a term used to describe the profitable systems, worth billions of dollars annually, built around capturing, incarcerating, and deporting immigrants.
With a shocking death toll of at least 221, the Dominican ruling class is already seeking to divert attention from the the crime by promoting nationalist chauvinism and anti-Haitian xenophobia.
The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores that this will be the most right-wing German government since the Nazis held power.
Health Secretary Kennedy, America’s top anti-vaccine zealot, tours measles-ravaged regions while cynically consoling families of children whose deaths his own propaganda helped cause.
George Mason University president Gregory Washington openly welcomed the Trump administration attack on democratic rights as part of its crackdown on anti-genocide protests.
Emerson Wolfe was taken into custody just as the “Hands Off” rally against the Trump administration was set to begin in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Labour’s repressive measures against the Birmingham bin strike are aimed against the entire working class.
24-hour general strike across all sectors in Greece to protest austerity; strikes in the West Bank and Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza; police use tear gas against nationwide demonstrations in Nigeria against poverty and attacks on democratic rights
Building a movement to defeat these attacks on democratic rights means understanding the class and imperialist interests behind them.
“There’s no way to pretend there isn’t enough money. Everyone seems to have money for a war but not for health.”
As striking doctors turn out to fight the Minns Labor government, ASMOF officials are determined to keep them separated from tens of thousands of other public sector health workers while appealing for “compromise” negotiations.
