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The New Democratic Machine — And The Billionaires Behind It
The scandal was minimal, a blip in a Democratic primary race in New York’s Hudson Valley. But the incident was an early sign of a powerful new political machine playing an unprecedented role in Democratic primaries. The problem emerged in February. Jackie Rosa, a political communications strategist, had been fielding press questions for Cait Conley, a combat veteran vying for New York’s 17th congressional district, as though she were a campaign spokesperson. But when controversy erupted after Rosa circulated a memo bashing Conley’s opponent as a “far left political operative,” the strategist claimed she’d mounted the attack on behalf of an outside group, not the campaign. However, Rosa’s email sign-off listed an affiliation with a different political group — and her email address was tied to yet another organization, a shadowy Delaware consultancy. Four separate entities, all tied to a single strategist, seemingly collaborated on messaging against a candidate, even though campaign finance law theoretically limits close coordination between campaigns and outside spending vehicles. What exactly was going on? All of the organizations, it turns out, belonged to a new dark-money-backed enterprise of unparalleled scale and complexity. The influence network brands itself as boosting Democrats’ electoral prospects ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. But the project’s true ambitions go much further.
https://www.levernews.com/the-new-democratic-machine-and-the-billionaires-behind-it/
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Ireland: fuel protests show the way
“At this stage Micheál Martin is not in control. The people of Ireland are in control. They have every motorway blocked in Ireland. They have businesses shut down. […] This is a revolution.” These words by James Geoghegan – agricultural contractor and prominent spokesperson of the Dublin’s protest – broadcast across national radio waves at the height of the fuel protests, paint a vivid picture of the mood that reigned at the blockades that began on 7 April. Dublin city centre was at a standstill for almost a week as farmers and hauliers who had been stretched beyond breaking Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

One person in custody after Trumps evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents’ dinner
There were reports that the US Secret Service had guns drawn as White House pool reporters were rushed out of the room and Secret Service agents yelled “shots fired”. In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Secret Service and law enforcement and said the shooter had been apprehended. He said he was waiting for a decision about whether the event would continue.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/donald-melania-trump-white-houe-correspondents-dinner

Pennsylvania court overturns limits on Medicaid coverage for abortions
A Pennsylvania court on Monday said that the state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion while striking down a decades-long law banning the use of state Medicaid funds to cover abortion costs. The ruling by a divided seven-judge panel of the appellate-level Commonwealth Court is a major victory for Planned Parenthood and abortion clinic operators who first sued Pennsylvania over its Medicaid funding restrictions in 2019.
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-medicaid-constitution-99e28f10c901f5120b034545a865e09b

US appeals court allows Texas to enforce migrant arrest law
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on a 10-7 vote overturned a 2024 injunction that had blocked enforcement of the law, which Democratic then-President Joe Biden's ​administration had challenged on the grounds that immigration is the prerogative of the federal government.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-allows-texas-enforce-migrant-arrest-law-2026-04-24/

Workers in Santa Clara County, California, put on leave amid child welfare crisis
The alleged sexual assault and killing of 2-year-old Jaxon Juarez — who the Department of Family and Children’s Services placed in the home of a cousin with a criminal record of child endangerment — marks the third high-profile child death under Santa Clara County’s watch in three years. Eight county employees connected to Juarez’s case file were placed on leave between April 8 and April 16. County Executive James Williams on Thursday said that number has jumped to 10, pending personnel investigations.
https://apnews.com/article/child-death-santa-clara-county-employees-leave-310810b9f20fcbdb91a8e2b646a438d1

Mandelson, May elections, and the markets: Pressures pile up for Starmer
In these troubled times, spare a thought for poor old Keir Starmer. Britain’s hapless Prime Minister can’t catch a break Everyone – and everything – seems to be lining up against him. And events, at home and abroad, are unlikely to offer any respite. Amongst voters, Starmer is the most unpopular PM in recent history – as will no doubt be seen in the upcoming May elections. The Labour leader and his party are on course to receive a drubbing in contests for the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments, and in local councils. But it is not only the electorate who, rightly, despise Starmer. Nobody is happy with the current occupant of Number 10. Across the pond, Donald Trump is also fuming about the uselessness of his British counterpart. Angered by the UK government’s refusal to join his disastrous war on Iran, the American President has repeatedly lashed out at Starmer: remarking that the Labour Prime Minister is “no Winston Churchill”, and threatening to tear up Britain’s trade deal with the USA, if Washington’s normally obedient poodle does not yield to his master’s call. Of course, Starmer’s stance towards Trump’s war has nothing to do with political principles, and everything to do with political expediency. The Labour leader has repeatedly demonstrated that he is happy to grovel and fawn before his boss in the White House. But with the British public in no mood for an Iraq 2.0, Zack Polanski’s Greens breathing down his neck, and elections approaching, Starmer is calculating that a few anti-Trump noises and a dash of feigned defiance might play well with voters and backbench MPs alike.
https://communist.red/mandelson-may-elections-and-the-markets-pressures-pile-up-for-starmer/

Rizospastis organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece: On Zyuganov’s outrageous statement and its coverage by the Greek bourgeois media
Various bourgeois media outlets in our country did not conceal their satisfaction, tinged with a dose of irony, at the recent provocative statement by Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who declared from the floor of the Russian parliament that a new 1917 —that is, a nPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump administration pushes DoJ to pursue denaturalization cases – report
The US government can ask a court to remove citizenship status of people who illegally obtained it. In some cases, people who have been denaturalized have been caught lying to officials or caught entering into a false marriage. In other cases, people who commit crimes can be denaturalized.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/trump-administration-denaturalization

Mamdani vetoes one protest buffer zone bill, ‘allows’ another to become law
The other protest buffer zone bill, Intro. 1-B, would establish protective measures near houses of worship. Mamdani said he would “allow it to become law,” but did not indicate that he would put his signature to it. Under the city charter, legislation sent to the mayor’s desk may become law within 30 days if the mayor neither signs nor vetoes it.
https://www.amny.com/politics/mamdani-vetoes-protest-buffer-zone-bill/
https://archive.ph/Rwtox

Maine Gov. Mills Ripped for Veto of Landmark AI Data Center Moratorium
The bill, LD 307, which passed both chambers of Maine’s Legislature with bipartisan support earlier this month, would have stopped state and local governments from issuing permits for data centers with electric loads of 20 megawatts or more until November 2027, giving the state time to study their effects.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mills-veto-data-center-moratorium

South Dakota Supreme Court rules officer names can be kept secret
Two police officers involved in a shootout with a suspect in 2024 can have their names protected from public view to prevent someone from potentially locating or harassing the officer or their families, according to a ruling Thursday by the South Dakota Supreme Court that reversed a lower court’s decision. Justices ruled that Marsy’s Law, a state constitutional amendment approved by South Dakota voters Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tom Steyer Opposed Single-Payer. Now He’s Running On It.
Last week, California Democrats killed CalCare, the state's latest attempt to pass single-payer health care. Will that California dream ever come true? Tom Steyer — a candidate for governor who ran ads against single-payer health care in 2020 — says he is now the Golden State's best bet. He also wants higher taxes for the rich, stronger environmental protections, and the abolition of ICE. The catch? He's a billionaire running a self-financed campaign. Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund manager turned philanthropist, to discuss the collapse of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) campaign, whether billionaires are a policy failure, and the chaotic governor’s race that has left Republicans leading in the polls.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-5p4p3-2d10edcd

Zohran Mamdani Has a Choice on Free-Speech Restriction
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is currently facing a choice: whether to veto either of two protest buffer-zone bills passed by the city council late last month, which critics say would be a major blow to free speech. Intro 1-B and Intro 175-B, the “buffer zone” bills, would enable the New York Police Department (NYPD) to enact restrictions on protesting around houses of worship and educational institutions, respectively. Both bills passed the city council on March 26, and both have drawn extensive criticism. Unions, civil rights groups, activists, and the city’s ascendant democratic socialist left have argued that passing the bills would curtail the right to protest in large swaths of the city. The mayor has thirty days to veto or sign laws after they are passed by the council. If he does neither, the bill automatically passes. Mamdani’s last chance to issue a veto on both or either bill is this Saturday. Opponents are concentrating on Intro 175-B, the Education Buffer Zone Bill. Unlike Intro 1-B, Intro 175-B passed the city council without a veto-proof majority, which leaves room for a Mamdani veto to sink the bill. Critics of the bill point to how broadly it defines educational institutions. The final version would apply protest restrictions to “any building, structure, or place where educational programming takes place. . . . [This] includes but is not limited tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US soldier charged with making $400,000 on Maduro removal bets
A U.S. Army soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro has been charged with making $400,000 ‌by betting on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan leader, the Justice Department said on Thursday. In the weeks leading up to Maduro's January 3 capture, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, used sensitive classified information to make wagers on prediction market Polymarket that U.S. ​forces would enter Venezuela and that Maduro would be out of power.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-arrests-soldier-accused-betting-400000-maduro-removal-abc-news-reports-2026-04-23/

"The Amtrak of the skies"? Trump's interventionism comes for Spirit Airlines
The deal would likely provide equity warrants giving Uncle Sam a substantial ownership stake in the trouble business — possibly as much as 90%. "I guess it would be the Amtrak of the skies," Tad DeHaven, policy analyst at the Cato Institute, tells Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/22/spirit-airlines-trump-bailout
https://archive.ph/rUlFP

RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’
A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s ban on gender-affirming care for children on Saturday, decrying Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “wanton disregard” for the law that “causes very real harm to very real people”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/rfk-jr-agenda-trans-care-children

Georgia Republican pleads not guilty to wire fraud charge in Ponzi scheme
Frost waived indictment before pleading not guilty, a step that is typically a prelude to a later guilty plea in federal courts. He publicly apologized for his role earlier and is free on bail. U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg told The Associated Press that Frost is “not going to contest the chPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Erik Houdini: What is Praxis?: Becoming Activated
“Man can affect his own development and that of his surroundings only so far as he has a clear view of what the possibilities of action are open to him. To do this he has to understand the historical situation in which he finds himself: and once he does this, then he can play an active part in modifying that situation. The man of action is the true philosopher: and the philosopher must of necessity be a man of action.” — Antonio Gramsci
What's praxis? Like, for real though—be for real. What is this nebulous concept? Praxis is when your friend says, Hey, we want to do some kind of anti-American event for 4th of July, and you pivot to, Yeah, let's give the money to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and a local immigration organization. And let's tie the struggles back to the Global South and the imperial core because we're all ultimately oppressed by the same oppressors: the capitalists. That's praxis. Praxis is the connections we make between people on individual levels as working-class individuals. It's staying back after the show is over and asking, Hey, does anyone need any help cleaning? Praxis is mutual aid in action. It's when you find out one of the homies hasn't been eating. You don't just say damn, that's rough. You start asking around. Can we get him on food stamps? Can someone help him navigate the Medicaid website? Can someone front groceries until we get it figured out? It's collectivized survival. It's pulling together the fragments of a busted welfare state and patching it up with your own labor and time. It's when the plaza gets skate-stopped, so you grab a crowbar, a bag of Quickrete, and the homies to tear that shit out at 3 AM. It's when you say, Yeah, we're taking $5 off the $15 show if you bring two cans of food. They've got to be good cans of food, no scum shit. And then all that money goes back to a local pantry. That's real mutual aid. That's real praxis.
https://houdinimagazine.com/articles/2026-04-09-erik-houdini-what-is-praxis

Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?
The contemporary framing of the reparations debate is seductive in its simplicity: Europeans arrived in Africa, Africans were enslaved, Europeans grew rich, and Africans became impoverished. TherPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Requests for US legal aid linked to Palestine activism far surpass pre-2023 levels
Palestine Legal also saw a spike in immigration-related requests after Trump returned to office and signed an executive order to target pro-Palestine student activists, leading to “a cascade of unlawful and cruel state-mandated kidnappings intended to intimidate and silence the growing student movement for Palestinian rights”, the group noted.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/us-legal-aid-palestine

Citing Child Cancer Risk, Lawsuit Targets Trump EPA Over Glyphosate =
Just days before the US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments related to glyphosate’s health risks, the Environmental Working Group on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for unlawfully delaying its response to an EWG petition seeking stronger restrictions on “the most widely used herbicide in the United States and globally.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/glyphosate

US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot
In a video statement posted to social media, Hegseth described the mandate as “overly broad” and “not rational” and the decision to drop the vaccine requirement as “seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/military-flu-shot-requirement-pete-hegseth

Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants
The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples. “The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This May Day, the Working Class Must Defeat the Ruling Class’s Wars
With less than a month until May Day, workers around the world are preparing to mark International Workers’ Day amid a growing economic crisis and increasing militarism. Last year witnessed one of the largest May 1 mobilizations in the United States in years, showcasing a working class capable of standing up to Trump. This year’s call to action carries an even more urgent and specific charge than in years past. The workers’ movement worldwide — and especially within the United States, the heart of the imperialist beast — must be fiercely and uncompromisingly anti-imperialist. So far, the year 2026 has already seen a devastating display of U.S. imperialist hegemony’s decline under Trump. (This follows last year, when Trump bombed seven different countries.) In a demonstration of what Trump calls the “Donroe doctrine,” the U.S. abducted the president of Venezuela, effectively turning the country into a semicolony. Trump continues to deprive the Cuban people of oil, leaving over 10 million without power. The United States and Israel have launched a deeply unpopular war on Iran and Lebanon, killing thousands, displacing millions, deepening a global economic crisis, and exposing their own weaknesses in imposing their imperialist agenda.
https://www.leftvoice.org/this-may-day-the-working-class-must-defeat-the-ruling-classs-wars/

Flying South for the War: The Rise of Drone Warfare in Latin America
The bomb begins falling from the left side of the screen as soon as the video starts. The viewer has the perspective of the drone as it looks down at a white pickup truck with a full bed; men standing on the driver’s side of the vehicle appear to be talking, while the bombs gets smaller and smaller before impacting the bed of the truck and detonating. The men on the driver’s side flee as a man in the front passenger seat exits the vehicle and joins his comrades in flight. This is a short video released by the Mexican drug cartel Cárteles Unidos, showing an attack on the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). This video, published by the pseudonymous conflict researcher War Noir in August of 2025, provides a glimpse into the emerging, but increasingly complex world of drone use by drug cartePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct investigation
The labor secretary and her close aides are currently under investigation by the department’s inspector general over allegations of professional misconduct. These include claims that Chavez-DeRemer had an affair with a member of her security detail, kept a “stash” of alcohol in her office and used government resources for personal travel, while her aides allegedly sought to channel grants towards politically connected figures, the New York Times reported in March.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/trump-labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer

US Justice Department demands 2024 Detroit-area ballots in latest move for local election records
The letter, from the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, appears to be a widening of Trump’s grievances over his false claims that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election while at the same time looking ahead to this fall’s critical midterm election, when control of the U.S. House and Senate is in the balance.
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-elections-trump-wayne-county-michigan-4341df00ea8a2814a9fd42f2225d4495

Wall Street regulators jointly propose to trim Biden-era private fund reporting rules
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday jointly proposed ​reforms to Biden-era regulations on enhanced disclosures by the $26 trillion private fund industry, the ‌agencies announced. The SEC said the changes, if adopted, would reduce burdens on the private funds and investment advisers while still requiring the collection of "necessary and appropriate" information.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/wall-street-regulators-jointly-propose-trim-biden-era-private-fund-reporting-2026-04-20/

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Statement on Lebanon by the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades
The cessation of aggression against Lebanon is the result of the steadfastness of the Lebanese people and their valiant resistance The Front affirmed that forcing the Zionist occupation to halt its aggression is the fruit of the steadfastness of the people of Lebanon and the immense sacrifices made by the valiant resistance, which fought a legitimate defense of Lebanese land, people, and rights.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/31638/

Dockworkers Against Russia’s and Israel’s Wars
Ahead of May Day 2022, two months after Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian trade unionists called for solidarity with the invaded country. Artem Tidva, a Ukrainian left-winger and labor activist, addressed international unions calling for actions to help stop the Russian war machine. In Sweden, such action was already underway. In March 2022, Swedish dockers had begun a blockade of Russian ships. This decision, supported by a nationwide vote among the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union’s approximately one thousand members, highlighted the complicity of global capitalist mechanisms in facilitating Russia’s evasion of sanctions. Yet it also met with resistance from both employers and politicians, and the union faced practical problems in identifying ships belonging to Russia. Yet despite legal challenges, including two lawsuits, Swedish dockers continued their solidarity effort. These efforts earned support in wider society, not least thanks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioning the action in a speech. Erik Helgeson, a dockworker in Gothenburg for the last twenty years, was one of the union activists involved. Deputy national chairman of the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union, he was fired from his port job in 2025 — this time following another solidarity action, against Israeli shipping. In an interview, Tidva and Hegelson spoke about the Swedish actions and the role of worker solidarity in stopping the machinery of war.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/sweden-dockworkers-boycott-russia-israel

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Chapter I: Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1851
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Minnesota medical drivers plead for help from politicians after national business cancels contract over fraud allegations
A national medical transportation business says allegations of fraud caused it to recently cancel a 20-year contract with a local company. The company says it's not true. From the Minnesota State Capitol steps, a group of roughly 95 non-emergency transportation drivers, most East African, say they're being targeted.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-medical-transportation-drivers-need-help-fraud-allegations/

Minneapolis woman dragged from car by federal agents files legal action
Rahman said an agent punched in her passenger-side window even though her own window was rolled down. A viral video of the altercation shows agents dragging her out of her car while she yells that she’s disabled and trying to go to the doctor. Rahman is autistic and in treatment for a previous traumatic brain injury, which she told agents as they dragged her to an unmarked car. She typically uses a cane.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/19/aliya-rahman-dragged-from-car-by-federal-agents-files-legal-action
https://archive.ph/712XQ

States eulogize Charlie Kirk with new laws promoting religion and free speech
A new Kansas law will allow college students to sue their schools for free-speech violations. In Tennessee, a new law will encourage teachers and professors to include “the positive impacts of religion” in American history courses. The common factor: Both are being done in the name of Charlie Kirk.
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-laws-free-speech-1ef2e977c5cec05c8b521c38dce57443

Wisconsin authorities put total arrests from clashes at beagle breeding facility at about 25
Saturday’s protest was the second attempt in as many months by demonstrators to take bePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

“Meet our demands!” – Workers’ uprising in India
Since the 13th of April, a mass workers’ uprising has been raging in the southern industrial areas of Delhi. On the one hand, this was a direct response to the rising costs caused by the war in Iran; on the other, workers’ protests had been taking place repeatedly in industrial centres since the start of the year. They demanded shorter working hours, higher minimum wages, higher overtime pay, payment of outstanding wages and equal working conditions for temp workers and permanent staff.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2026/04/15/meet-our-demands-workers-uprising-in-india/

Will More Warehouses Burn?
“If you’re not going to pay us enough to fucking live, you can at least pay us enough to not do this shit,” the man says as he reaches out with a lighter and ignites a pallet of toilet paper. Minutes later, multiple pallets can be seen burning in a video taken inside the 1.2-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark warehouse located in California’s Inland Empire. “There goes your inventory,” the man says. The warehouse quickly became a raging inferno, requiring 175 firefighters and fifteen truck companies to subdue the six-alarm fire over the next fifteen hours. Warehouse workers were safely evacuated, and no one was injured by the blaze. Police quickly arrested twenty-nine year old Chamel Abdulkarim, who they say posted several self-incriminating videos of himself lighting the fire on social media. If convicted, Abdulkarim could face up to twenty years in federal prison. He has pleaded not guilty. I’ve spent my life trying to organize workers in smart and strategic ways to build power. Burning down a warehouse is not on my list of effective working-class tactics — quite the contrary. But I doubt that this is the last time we will hear a story of one low-wage worker’s incendiary revenge, and this story in particular goes much deeper. To understand it, we need to start with Kimberly-Clark’s financial disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/california-kimberly-clark-warehouse-arson

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Senate passes short-term FISA extension, following House in maintaining surveillance law through April 30
The spy authority, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on Monday. The extension approved Friday pushes back the deadline by 10 days, until April 30, as lawmakers try to reach a longer-term solution.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-passes-short-term-fisa-extension-after-house-does/

Family of US man who died after officer shoved knee into back sues police
Adair was arrested in July on misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear on multiple traffic violations. At the time, Adair’s leg needed to be amputated and was so badly infected that he was taken straight to the hospital, a Kansas bureau of investigation agent wrote in the affidavit. Before Adair was cleared to return to the jail, he was diagnosed with a type of bone infection that sometimes develops in people with diabetes. A medical screening also found he was schizophrenic, the affidavit said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/kansas-man-death-charles-adair

Democrats eye new strategy after Iran war powers fail
It's the kind of showy flood-the-zone tactic that the Democratic grassroots is constantly trying to get the party's lawmakers to pursue in resisting the Trump administration. It's not clear if House Democratic leadership will get behind the tactic, but even some centrists aren't immediately dismissing the proposal. "I'd welcome it," Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), who represents battleground-district members in leadership, told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/iran-war-powers-trump-democrats-congress-house
https://archive.ph/viZ9e

Employees at first ever Starbucks store seek to unionize amid fight for contract
The average time it takes for a union to reach a first contract is about 465 days, but Starbucks workerPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

War on Iran: Why the Islamabad talks failed
What happened in Islamabad is not an isolated event, but rather part of a longer American strategy in the region. Indeed, the American-Zionist war on Iran did not emerge in isolation. It is the direct extension of a broader strategy that accelerated after October 2023, when Israel’s failure to achieve decisive outcomes in Gaza exposed the limits of military power and deterrence. Washington responded not by reassessing its regional posture, but by doubling down, expanding confrontation, tightening sanctions, and eventually moving towards direct military aggression against Iran. Iran entered the talks with a structured position. Through Pakistani mediators, it submitted a 10-point proposal intended to frame negotiations. The details were not publicly released in full, but the outline was clear: a cessation of hostilities, recognition of Iran’s rights under international law, phased sanctions relief, and reciprocal security guarantees. Initially, US President Donald Trump signalled that the proposal could serve as a basis for dialogue. That signal proved misleading. The US delegation did not engage the proposal as a negotiating framework; instead, it moved quickly to impose a separate set of demands. Within hours, the Iranian proposal was effectively sidelined. Reports from the meeting indicate that Trump personally dismissed the framework, instructing his team to proceed on the basis of American conditions. What followed was not a negotiation, but the imposition of American demands. The talks stalled at that point. The remaining hours were spent attempting to bridge a gap that had already become unbridgeable.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-iran-why-islamabad-talks-failed

The Left Needs an Alternative Cosmopolitanism Interview with Lea Ypi
The standard critique of the liberal international order comes from the Right these days: the nation-state is supreme, global institutions are a racket, and cosmopolitan elites have sold out ordinary people. The standard defense comes from liberals who conflate the internationalism of the postwar order with the economic system it upholds and defend them both at once. Not satisfied with either position, political theorist Lea Ypi instead urges us to develop what she Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

JBS workers' union to ask Colorado lawmakers to protect access to bathroom breaks
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, the union that represents the JBS workers in Greeley, is lobbying at Colorado's State Capitol to further protect its members. According to Kim Cordova, president of UFCW Local 7, the union is asking state lawmakers to pass a law that would require companies to allow employees to have reasonable bathroom breaks without fear of punitive measures.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/jbs-workers-union-colorado-lawmakers-protect-access-bathroom-breaks/

USC student prepares to file lawsuit against DHS after losing eye during DLTA 'No Kings' rally
An 18-year-old USC freshman who lost an eye is calling for justice after a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer fired a projectile at him during a "No Kings" rally in downtown Los Angeles last month. Tucker Collins is preparing to file a federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging the DHS officer is responsible for his life-altering injury.
https://abc7.com/post/usc-freshman-prepares-file-lawsuit-dhs-losing-eye-during-no-kings-rally-downtown-los-angeles/18895845/

Democratic senator dumps on DSCC's "big mistake" in Maine
"We want to push the caucus to fight even harder against the lawless Trump administration. I think we've made some progress since this time last year," said Van Hollen, himself a former DSCC chair. "We are also very unhappy with the fact that the DSCC has been putting its foot on the scale as the party organization in the Senate in some of these races. So that's what formed the Fight Club."
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/chris-van-hollen-dscc-maine-platner-mills
https://archive.ph/GnEAX

Eric Adams’ zombie effort to change NYC Charter roars to life with first public hearing
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1027 - Komm Susser Rod feat. Andrew Hudson (4/13/26) (Chapo Trap House )
Andrew Hudson of E1 returns to cover the downfall of two great men: Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Eric Swalwell in California. Also in the news: JD Vance goes on an international losing tour from Pakistan to Hungary, Trump threatens military action against the Pope, and another dispatch from Punished Rod.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1027-komm-susser-rod-feat

Your Party: what kind of socialist party does the British working class actually need in 2026?
THERE is a theoretical question at the heart of Your Party’s April 2026 decision on membership eligibility, and it deserves a serious answer — not a bureaucratic one. The question is this: what kind of socialist party does the British working class actually need in 2026? A disciplined vanguard, or a broad democratic mass party? An organisation built around the co-ordination of professional revolutionaries, or one built around the self-activity and democratic participation of the widest possible cross-section of the working class itself? The Your Party central executive committee (CEC) has, with its membership eligibility framework, given a clear and principled answer. Understanding why that answer is correct requires going back to one of the deepest debates in the socialist tradition. Rosa Luxemburg spent much of her political life engaged in precisely this debate with Lenin. Her position was not, as is sometimes caricatured, a rejection of organisation. She was a lifelong organiser who died at the hands of counter-revolution. Her argument was something more precise: that the revolutionary transformation of society could not be accomplished by substituting a disciplined party for the self-activity of the working class.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-what-kind-socialist-party-does-british-working-class-actually-need-2026

Anarchists and Neo-anarchists: Horizontalism and Autonomous Spaces
It is not uncommon, particularly in North America, to see anarchism defined as an ideology rooted in ‘direct democracy’, coPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

In 47-52 Vote, Senate GOP Blocks Another Iran War Powers Resolution
Although the war launched by the US and Israel in late February has killed more than 1,700 civilians and sparked a global fuel crisis that has sent prices skyrocketing, that was not enough for 52 Republican senators—every one except libertarian Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—who voted to back the president even as the war further erodes his approval rating.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-gop-blocks-iran-war-powers

‘They want to keep denying us our rights’: workers in Vermont’s $5.4bn dairy industry fight for basic labor protections
the state has refused to codify rights for any of the state’s 8,300 farm workers, including roughly 1,000 undocumented workers, according to numbers provided by Migrant Justice, a Vermont-based human rights organization founded and led by farm workers. These workers remain exempt from minimum wage rules, overtime protections and the right to unionize. And increasing immigration enforcement has made them more legally vulnerable and kept them cloistered on farms.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/vermont-dairy-industry-migrant-labor-workers-rights

Georgia man charged over attacks that killed DHS worker and other woman
The killing of the DHS worker, Lauren Bullis, and shootings of the two other victims on Monday led homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin to issue a statement raising concerns that the 26-year-old suspect, British native Olaolukitan Adon Abel, was granted US citizenship in 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/georgia-killing-dhs-worker

US Senator Warren voices concern over Nvidia's acquisition of Slurm
SchedMD and Slurm are ​not household names. But the deal follows a pattern of Nvidia targeting under-the-radar companies whose technology serves ⁠as the glue holding the world's most powerful data centers and supercomputers together. In the letter, which was seen bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Hungary’s Fake “Democratic” Revolution — From Orbán’s Mafia to Péter Magyar’s Neoliberal Circus
The international liberal commentariat is celebrating again. Viktor Orbán, the long-reigning right-wing strongman of Hungary, has been defeated in the April 2026 elections by Péter Magyar, a slick, photogenic opposition leader who stormed to power in a matter of months. Headlines scream “democracy wins,” “Orbánism is over,” and “a new dawn for Europe.” Don’t believe a word of it. This is not a victory for the left, for working people, or for any genuine progressive force. It was a squalid palace coup within Hungary’s corrupt political elite — a transfer of power from one faction of the ruling class to another, dressed up as a heroic popular uprising. The Hungarian people did not win. They simply exchanged one set of oligarchs for another.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/14/hungarys-fake-democratic-revolution-from-orbans-mafia-to-peter-magyars-neoliberal-circus/

ALPRs and Minneapolis’ Growing Discriminatory Surveillance Dragnet
In Minneapolis, like in other cities across the United States, cameras cover the tops of light poles like barnacles revealed by a low tide. Motorists are no stranger to their growing ubiquity and mostly pay no mind to them as if they’re another natural part of the urban ecosystem, no different than all of the cigarette butts and wrappers on the street. In the last several years, however, a new apex predator of surveillance has emerged largely unnoticed. The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and private businesses have been installing Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) at numerous locations, little cameras perched in discreet locations like ugly, bald-headed vultures that make CCTV cameras seem archaic in comparison. ALPRs, as the name suggests, automatically read license plates, often with the help of artificial intelligence, and store that data for later without the need for any human eyes. There’s not much limiting them to plate numbers, though: they’re able to recognize the vehicle itself by color, scratches and even cargo. MPD’s ALPR cameras alone, set up at 30 intersections in the city, collected data at all hours every single day on more than 31 million vehicles in thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Dozens detained in New York City protest over US arms sales to Israel
Dozens of protesters were detained by police in New York City on Monday during demonstrations calling for the blocking ​of arms sales to Israel and an end to U.S. ‌military support for its ally. Demonstrators included antiwar group Jewish Voice for Peace, which said around 90 people were detained. Among those detained was whistleblower Chelsea Manning, a former ​U.S. Army soldier and WikiLeaks source.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/dozens-detained-new-york-city-protest-over-us-arms-sales-israel-2026-04-14/

GOP campaigns go all-in on AI — Dems not so much
The White House's digital shop sets the tone for the GOP's aggressive approach, firing off AI-generated social media posts boosting Trump and blasting his critics. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is using AI to create ads, analyze data and identify new small donors, according to an NRSC spokesperson.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/14/republicans-ai-campaigns-democrats-2026
https://archive.ph/G59yd

United Airlines CEO reportedly pitched merger with American, sparking competition fears
Scott Kirby, who leads United, raised the prospect during an encounter with the US president in late February, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed sources. Such a deal would overhaul the global air travel industry – and would likely face intense competition scrutiny.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/united-airlines-merger-american-airlines

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters
A woman using a walker had shown up, incontinent and carrying “a large bag of medications.” She was diabetic, managing a tibia fracture and alcohol-related dementia, and she was “dumped” at the shelter, according to federal inspectors.
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The homeland must be defended: Cuban unions call for mass mobilization on May Day 2026
In the face of growing threats from the U.S. government—reinforced by the executive order of January 29, which has added an energy siege to the already intensified economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed on our country for more than 65 years, simply because we chose to build a dignified, sovereign, and independent nation—there is nothing more urgent or decisive today than to act together and strengthen ourselves as a country. In this context, the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), its national unions, and the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR) call for the celebration of May 1st, International Workers’ Day, under a clear and mobilizing principle: The homeland must be defended. To mark May Day is to reaffirm the unity and patriotism of the Cuban people. It is to once again “break the corojo,” as Antonio Maceo did at Baraguá when he rejected a peace without independence; to recall José Martí’s message in Los Pinos Nuevos, a historic call for unity across generations in the struggle for sovereignty; and, in the year marking the centenary of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, to uphold the vision he expressed on May 1, 2000.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/04/the-homeland-must-be-defended-cuban-unions-call-for-mass-mobilization-on-may-day-2026.html

Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian Model Has Collapsed
Reacting to news of Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Sunday’s Hungarian election, many of his admirers insisted that he had, after all, done a good job. Jordan Bardella, president of France’s Rassemblement National, wrote that Orbán had “led Hungary’s economic recovery, promoted family policies that helped maintain the birth rate, and defended his country and Europe’s borders against migration.” Dutch nationalist leader Geert Wilders insisted Orbán was “the only leader with balls in the EU”; for others, the fact that he had admitted defeat proved his democratic spirit. Many accounts focus on Orbán’s authoritarian hold on power, whether rewriting the state’s Fundamental Law or packing the Constitutional Court. His Fidesz party’s influence on public media and the education system was also an importanPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Judges fired after blocking deportation of pro-Palestinian students
The New York Times reported over the weekend that the justice department had terminated six judges, including Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, who oversaw deportation proceedings against Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, two students who were arrested last year as part of Trump’s campaign against the Gaza protest movement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/13/immigration-judges-fired-trump-administration

With Congress Back in DC, Sanders Plans Another Vote on Blocking US Weapons to Israel Over Genocide
With members of Congress returning to Washington, DC, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday pledged that he will, yet again, force a vote aimed at cutting off the flow of US weapons to Israel over its genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-weapons-israel

Man shot by ICE in California has been arrested by the FBI, attorney says
A man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an enforcement stop in central California last week was arrested Monday by the FBI after being discharged from a hospital, his attorney said. Attorney Patrick Kolasinski said federal officials have not said what charges Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez might face. Messages were sent to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking more information about the arrest.
https://apnews.com/article/california-ice-shooting-carlos-ivan-mendoza-hernandez-71b60ba1007bd705454a4cef5293da6e

Minnesota investigates the arrest by ICE of a Hmong American man as a possible kidnapping
Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said at a news conference they will pursue information from the Department of Homeland Security that they need for their investigation into the arrest of ChongLy "Scott" Thao in January. Ramsey County includes the state capital of St. Paul.
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Serbia’s Government Is Targeting the Public University
In the seventeenth month of a student-led mass movement in Serbia, the death of a student at the Faculty of Philosophy triggered an orchestrated attack on the University of Belgrade by the country’s government-police-tabloid complex. On the eve of the police raid, protesters gathered in front of the rectorate, and the rector delivered a historic speech situating the university as the last autonomous institution in the country ready to confront ruling-party power. But the question remains: what kind of politics, and in whose name?
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/serbia-university-belgrade-student-social-movements

"Not Guns for Hire": Trump's Failure to Trigger a Kurdish Uprising
The timing of the pact has led many to suggest that it was intended as preparation for an alignment with Israel and the U.S. in the coming conflict. Enderyarî, without directly refuting that narrative, pointed out that the relevant discussions between the parties had started in the aftermath of the 2022 anti-government “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran—significantly predating the current war. “Although political conditions also played a role, the formation of this alliance was a historical necessity, and it can even be said that it was delayed,” said Enderyarî. Regardless, Iranian Kurds quickly found themselves thrust into the forefront of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran. In the first week of fighting, the U.S. and Israel bombed numerous government positions in Kurdish regions of Iran, while making public calls to Kurdish groups to launch an uprising against the government. That uprising, intended to drain the resources and attention of the Iranian military, while potentially causing the ethnic dissolution of the country, did not come to pass. Other Iranian Kurdish groups who spoke to Drop Site expressed suspicion over attempts to maneuver them into a conflict at the behest of foreign powers. Ebrahim Alizadeh, General Secretary of Komala (CPI), also known as the Kurdistan Organization of the Iranian Communist Party, the only party of the seven that didn’t join the alliance, stated that one of the reasons his group had not joined the February 22 announcement was out of belief that the alliance had been hastily formed iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Kamala Harris says she might run for president again in 2028
A run in 2028 for Harris could face challenges among voters who have ​indicated in polling that they want to see ​new leaders ⁠for the Democratic Party following Harris' loss to Trump. The National Action Network convention drew several potential Democratic candidates, including Pennsylvania ⁠Governor ​Josh Shapiro, former Transportation Secretary Pete ​Buttigieg and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, among others.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/kamala-harris-says-she-might-run-president-again-2028-2026-04-10/

Workers at LA stadium threaten World Cup strike amid anger over ICE
Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, outlined a slew of union demands in a letter addressed to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Stan Kroenke, the billionaire sports mogul who built the stadium. Petersen called for the leaders to abide by fair working practices, citing allegations of wage theft overseas during past iterations of the tournament.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/11/sofi-stadium-los-angeles-world-cup

Activists calling for closure of trash-burning plant in Minneapolis start hunger strike
The strike is being organized by the Zero Burn Coalition, a group dedicated to shutting down the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center, also known as HERC. First built in 1989, the waste-to-energy facility burns garbage and produces enough energy to power about 25,000 homes, according to Hennepin County.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/hunger-strike-minneapolis-herc-trash-incinerator/

Louisiana Republicans move to eliminate court office won by exonerated man
Calvin Duncan won 68% of the vote last November to become the Orleans parish clerk of criminal court after pledging to reform the justice system based on his own experience fighting to access court records while in maximum security prison.
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Errico Malatesta: Reformism
The fundamental error of the reformists is that of dreaming of solidarity, a sincere collaboration, between masters and servants, between proprietors and workers which even if it might have existed here and there in periods of profound unconsciousness of the masses and of ingenuous faith in religion and rewards, is utterly impossible today. Those who envisage a society of well stuffed pigs which waddle contentedly under the ferule of a small number of swineherd; who do not take into account the need for freedom and the sentiment of human dignity; who really believe in a God that orders, for his abstruse ends, the poor to be submissive and the rich to be good and charitable — can also imagine and aspire to a technical organization of production which assures abundance to all and is at the same time materially advantageous both to the bosses and to the workers. But in reality “social peace” based on abundance for all will remain a dream, so long as society is divided into antagonistic classes, that is employers and employes. And there will be neither peace nor abundance.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1920s/reformism.html

The American War in Laos Still Claiming Victims 50 Years Later
In a remote village in the mountains of Xieng Khouang province in northern Laos a small temple is under construction. Its concrete walls are unpainted, and window and door frames sit unfinished. Inside the temple rests a 500-year-old golden Buddha statue, flanked by two columns of old brick. The statue’s eyes gaze outside at the rice paddies that surround the village. Out of sight of the Buddha’s field of vision is the original temple – now a large mound of bricks and rubble. A local shop owner says the temple was bombed during the war by the Americans. Another local resident is asked what else was bombed during the war. “Everything,” he says. “Everything.” Beyond the rubble, buried just below the surface across the vast mountain ranges and farmlands of Laos are millions of unexploded bombs, still claiming victims 50 years after the end of the war. Laos was caught in the crosshairs of the American-led global crusade against communism during the Cold War. The war in Vietnam engulfed neighboring Cambodia and Laos. Vietnamese communists were pushed acroPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Brazil announces US partnership to intercept weapons, drug trafficking
The operation, according to Lula’s government, will be called the DESARMA programme. Brazil’s Finance Minister Dario Durigan hailed the collaboration with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as an “important step in strengthening international cooperation” against crime.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/10/brazil-announces-us-partnership-to-intercept-weapons-drug-trafficking
https://archive.ph/FYTv4

Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil’s appeal, bringing activist one step closer to deportation
Khalil said he was not surprised by the ruling, which he called “biased and politically motivated.” His attorneys said he cannot be lawfully detained or deported as he pursues a separate case in the federal court system. “The only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine — and this administration has weaponized the immigration system to punish me for it,” Khalil said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-protester-appeal-deportation-trump-94e926c5a6bfd7fbcb0fe52066a77dbb

Suspect Arrested After Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
A suspect was arrested in San Francisco Friday after being accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, the CEO of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI. The 20-year-old man was found at the OpenAI headquarters about three miles away from Altman’s home, where he was threatening to burn down the building, San Francisco police said.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sam-altman-attack

Democratic Socialists Win Court Battle as Elections Near
An investigation into effort, first reported by The New York Times, had wound through the State Board of Elections and courts for years. The D.S.A. maintained its innocence throughout, but hadPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran: The Announcement of a “Temporary Ceasefire” — A Step Forward Toward Achieving Lasting Peace
The failure of the U.S. policy of “regime change,” aimed at installing proxies such as Reza Pahlavi or other dependent forces, is also significant for the people of our country and the anti-dictatorial movement, which, following U.S. and Israeli military aggression, focused its efforts on defending the country’s territorial integrity. Regime change in Iran is a matter of the right and authority of the Iranian people, not foreign aggressors. In our view, the agreement on a two-week ceasefire to allow negotiations and move toward lasting peace—despite the many complexities and difficulties it will undoubtedly face—is an important step for the country’s future. Alongside this step, the fundamental demands of the popular movement for a transition away from dictatorship and for people to determine their own destiny—toward freedom and social justice—remain firmly in place. Only under conditions where peace is guaranteed can such a struggle move forward.
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/2026/04/08/statement-of-the-tudeh-party-of-iran-the-announcement-of-a-temporary-ceasefire-a-step-forward-toward-achieving-lasting-peace/

The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights :Iranians have shown immense courage before horrific US-Israeli aggression — the ceasefire must be made to last
Rectifying this disaster will require a durable and sustainable peace, proper reparations to allow Iran to rebuild, as well as the implementation by its own government of urgently needed reform as well as popular policies aligned with the nation’s real strategic interests. However, it is important to state that all reports from on the ground in Iran indicate that the 40-day bombardment of Iranian cities, as well as civil and national infrastructure by the US and Israel has neither weakened the resolve of the Iranian people one iota to resist malign outside interference nor to rally to the defence of Iran’s national sovereignty. The formation of huge human chains across bridges and around power plants at the eleventh hour before the anticipated coming into ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US Republicans block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers
Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, presided over an abbreviated "pro forma" House session, ending it before a group of Democrats could seek to pass by unanimous consent the resolution, which would have called for an end to the U.S. military operation.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-republicans-block-bid-rein-trump-iran-war-powers-2026-04-09/

US agency proposes rolling back rules for safe disposal of toxic coal ash
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed weakened rules governing the safe disposal of ash produced by burning coal. Those regulations were strengthened under the Biden administration as part of a wider crackdown on pollution from coal-fired power plants.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/epa-toxic-coal-ash-rollback-trump

US fertility rates drop to record low in 2025 as births fall
Shifting priorities among younger ​women, including "greater and more demanding job market opportunities, expanded leisure ⁠options, increased intensity of parenting… make the option to have children ​less desirable," said Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fertility-rates-drop-record-low-2025-births-fall-2026-04-09/

Sheriff’s deputy killed in central California while serving eviction notice
Authorities say the man is still barricaded inside the home and believed to be armed with a rifle, news station KFSN reported. Porterville is located about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the state’s Central Valley.
https://apnews.com/article/california-deputy-shot-killed-tulare-29ef95775bd79da00f1d7e41c825c1e8
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Promises, Promises: AOC, Israel, and the DSA
… To overlook or ignore these facts, or to pretend that the Zionist state of Israel is worth defending, is little more than a passive form of what Lenin called “social chauvinism.” Indeed, it is not enough to merely oppose military funding to Israel; any socialist worthy of the name must fundamentally be opposed to the existence of the Zionist regime and for the defeat of U.S. imperialism. The real question, however, is this: how did a socialist organization, whose rank-and-file members endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in 2017, and who voted to identify as an anti-Zionist organization in 2025, wind up in such a situation to begin with? And why have they allowed their most public political figure to continue to support Israel for so long even as it carried out a genocide against the people of Gaza? The answer has little to do with the DSA’s official positions on Israel and everything to do with its electoral strategy and its failure to break with the imperialist Democratic Party.
https://www.leftvoice.org/promises-promises-aoc-israel-and-the-dsa/

Anti-establishment anger builds in Scotland – but where will it go?=
On the streets of Scotland, you would be forgiven for not realising there is an election going on at all. The usual party stalls and leafleters are missing, and parties are reporting difficulties getting volunteers to go out campaigning. Instead, there is a general mood of despondency. Despite their lead in the polls, there is a notable lack of enthusiasm for the SNP. One recent survey showed that only five percent of Scots think the party has done a very good job in government since 2007. Nevertheless, given the lack of any other pro-independence alternative, many workers will still hold their nose and vote for the SNP this May, or simply not bother voting at all.
https://communist.red/anti-establishment-anger-builds-in-scotland-but-where-will-it-go/

“Never Mind Us!”…to the question of normality by David Graeber & Nika Dubrovsky
On November 9, the day Germany celebrated the 30th anniversary of the faPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Cuba Denies U.S. Medicare Fraud Allegations
Cuba vehemently rejected on Wednesday, U.S. officials’ claims speculating Cuba’s involvement in Medicare fraud in Florida, labeling the accusations baseless and politically motivated.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-denies-medicare-fraud-allegations/

March smashes record as most abnormally hot month for continental US, federal meteorologists say
Not only was it the hottest March on record for the U.S., but the amount it was above normal beat any other month in history for the Lower 48 states. March’s average temperature of 50.85 degrees Fahrenheit (10.47 degrees Celsius) was 9.35 F (5.19 C) above the 20th century normal for March.
https://apnews.com/article/march-temperature-record-weather-el-nino-369298794ffd94665ed78a6b4f3b0267

Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the US and Iran would reach a ceasefire on Tuesday, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-trump-us-iran-ceasefire

US still plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia despite Costa Rica agreement
U.S. government attorneys told a federal judge Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security still intends to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, even though Costa Rica has agreed to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/us-still-plans-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-liberia-despite-costa-rica-agreement
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The capitalists are preparing for class war – and so must we
If you want to know which party the ruling class is planning to use as their loyal servants next, watch the changing tides in the flow of political donations. Traditionally, these funds ran directly to the Conservative Party – but after 15 years of using up every last drop of credibility, the financial stream started flowing in Labour’s direction. Sensing this, Labour readily sucked up to the City of London and promised to do their bidding. Lo and behold, in 2023, they received a record £13 million in individual donations! In 2024, the year of the general election, they also outraised all other parties. Just under two years later, Labour’s credibility has been wrecked, and Reform UK is now the party receiving the most donations from wealthy backers. In just the last three months of 2025, Farage’s party received over £5.4 million in large donations. £3 million of that came from one particular parasite – Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency investor and CEO of an offshore aviation company.
https://communist.red/the-capitalists-are-preparing-for-class-war-and-so-must-we/

Another way to live: inside the fight for Prosfygika
On 5 February, 2026, Aristotelis Chantzis began a hunger strike to the death to defend his home from the latest development attempt that would result in the violent eviction of over 400 people. The next attack is imminent. Surrounded on either side by the police headquarters of Athens and the supreme court – two pillars of state power – the eight housing blocks that make up the squatted community of Prosfygika stand proud and unflinching – and always threatened. The neighbourhood is marked by a long history, both as a haven for refugees in Athens since the 1930s (Prosfygika means 'refugee homes' in Greek) and as a stronghold of partisan resistance in the December 1944 uprising, which left the blocks scarred by bullet holes. Today, the neighbourhood plays a key role in the fight against the ongoing state-backed gentrification of Athens. For most of the residents, living in Prosfygika is not a choice. It is imposed by the realities of housing in the city, which forces people without homes to squat. Many residents have lived in the neighbourhood all their lives, always on the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

As Trump Threatens Genocidal Attack, House Democrats Rebuked for Dragging Feet on War Powers Vote
Journalist Adam Johnson, however, noted that Democrats had a chance to “stop the madness” weeks ago, when it seemed they may have had the votes to pass a war powers resolution in the House at the end of March that would have limited Trump’s ability to further strike Iran. But instead, said Johnson, “ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) delayed the House War Powers vote until mid-April.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-genocide-iran-war-powers-dems

US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says
Orellana, whose title is UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, conducted an 11-day investigative mission in Mexico last month to learn about toxic threats facing its population. He said he found lax environmental standards and a lack of oversight, which have allowed pollution to accumulate over the years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/mexico-us-toxic-waste-un-special-rapporteur

ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 800 people following tips ​shared by federal airport security officials from the start of Donald Trump's presidency through February 2026, internal ICE data reviewed by ‌Reuters show, a figure far above what was previously publicly known.
https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-arrested-more-than-800-people-after-tips-us-airport-security-agency-2026-04-07/

Private Medicare plans get a break
The average 2.48% pay increase for 2027 was on the high end of analysts' expectations and marked a win for UnitedHealthcare, Humana and other Medicare Advantage plans, whose stocks tumbled after the administration's initial proposal in January. The plans will instead see an average increase of nearly 5% Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Donald Trump Has Given Iran a New Deadline, Again
In times of war, leaders tend to look towards the future’s history books as they compose their letters and speeches. Regret and stoicism; conviction and sorrow; grit and greatness: these are the themes that presidents and princes strive to capture with pithy eloquence as they prepare their populations for sacrifice. So too with Donald Trump on Easter Sunday. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell,” he picked from the drafts, “JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” The inspirational coffee mugs produce themselves. Dubbing this coming Tuesday “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one”, it’s far from the first time that Trump has threatened war crimes against Iran’s civilian infrastructure (and he’s already done more than a few too). On 21 March, Tehran was given 48 hours to allow ships through the Strait of Hormuz. By 23 March, it was five days. On the 26th, it became ten. On the 30th, it was ‘immediately’, which was rolled back to 48 hours this Saturday, then 48 hours again on Sunday. Trump may have promised to bomb Iran ‘back to the stone ages’ last week, but when it comes to statecraft, it appears Washington is already there. Because, as any child will tell you, the parental leap from “I really mean it” to “I really, really mean it this time” isn’t upwards, but downwards when it comes to authority.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/06/donald-trump-has-given-iran-a-new-deadline-again/

Why the doctors’ strike matters to all trade unionists
THE six-day strike by resident doctors in England, due to start after the Easter bank holiday weekend, raises issues that concern the whole labour movement. Doctors’ disputes are sometimes viewed at arm’s length by other trade unionists. The British Medical Association (BMA) remains outside the TUC. Doctors, unlike most NHS workers, are not part of Agenda for Change bargaining structures, which can reduce solidarity across the healthcare workforce, and their wages are relatively higher. Nor does every strike slogan — the threats to move to New Zealand for higher pay that featured on some junior doctors’ picket line placards last year, for instance — encourage sympathy from workers on lower pay with no such options. But theirPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

New Jersey cannot regulate Kalshi’s prediction market, federal appeals court rules
A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based third US circuit court of appeals ruled 2-1 in finding that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the sports-related event contracts that Kalshi allows people to trade on its platform.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/06/new-jersey-kalshi-ruling-cftc

Trump endorses Republican Steven Hilton for California governor, reordering wide-open race
The endorsement — coming about a month before mail ballots go to voters in advance of the June 2 primary — will help Hilton coalesce conservative support in a race with no clear leader. However, Trump is widely unpopular in heavily Democratic California outside his conservative base and Trump’s backing would become a liability if Hilton faces a Democrat in the November election.
https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-donald-trump-endorsement-steve-hilton-0c3b0f4752466e3fd12463cbb49c079d

Upstate NY judge removed from bench amid charges he advised illegal eviction, deleted emails, more
Investigators found Lilley gave legal advice to landlords outside of court about how to remove tenants from a mobile home, according to the commission’s findings. He told the property owners to serve a notice to vacate and later suggested they change the locks after the tenants were gone for about two weeks. But under New York law, tenants who have lived somewhere for at least 30 days can’t be locked out without going through the court process, the commission said.
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/04/upstate-ny-judge-removed-from-bench-amid-charges-he-advised-illegal-eviction-deleted-emails-more.html

West Virginia governor vetoes help for neglected and foster kids after approving tax cuts
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Why socialist Cuba is more democratic than the U.S
The renewed escalation of hostility by the Trump administration towards Cuba—through tightened sanctions, political pressure, and open ideological aggression—once again exposes a fundamental contradiction. A country that presents itself as the "global model of democracy" continues to treat a small socialist island as a persistent threat. This is not a coincidence. It points to something deeper: what is being contested is not “democracy” in the abstract, but two fundamentally different ways of organizing power in society. At a moment when Cuba faces intensified economic pressure and systematic attempts at destabilization, a simple question emerges: if Cuba is truly “undemocratic,” why must it be constantly attacked, isolated and discredited? And, just as importantly, what does it reveal about the United States that it invests so much effort in undermining it?
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/04/why-socialist-cuba-is-more-democratic-than-the-us.html

Crypto Is Flailing
It feels like just yesterday when crypto markets last crashed hard. Back in 2022, what had been a wildly careening celebrity- and media-fueled hype train suddenly was a smoldering wreckage. Those were the days of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-riddled FTX exchange, which went belly up along with a slew of other big crypto projects. The price of Bitcoin, the largest and most trend-setting of thousands of cryptocurrencies, dropped from its high of over $64,000 in 2021 to barely hitting $17,000 by 2022’s end. Along with Bitcoin, all things crypto sank. It felt at the time as though we all awoke from a bizarre collective dream in which mass-produced JPGs of cartoon monkeys had sold for prices that rivaled those of an average home, and trading made-up digital tokens on your phone promised to deliver unthinkable riches for the brave of heart. In the wake of crypto’s crash, most people preferred to tune out anything that included words like “blockchain,” “NFTs,” or “Bitcoin.” Even when prices for crypto recovered in 2024, the cringey backwash of 2022 clung on within mainstream public opinion. And then came Donald Trump.
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US satellite firm Planet Labs announces blackout on war on Iran images
The US company announced the decision in an email to customers on Saturday, with news agencies quoting it as saying the government had asked satellite imagery providers ⁠to impose an “indefinite withhold of imagery”. The restriction expands upon a 14-day delay on imagery of the Middle East that Planet Labs implemented last month, which extended an initial 96-hour delay, a move the firm said was meant to prevent adversaries from using the imagery to attack the US and its allies.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/us-satellite-firm-planet-labs-announces-blackout-on-war-on-iran-images
https://archive.ph/lyIHm

List of Programs Trump 2027 Budget Proposal Would Cut
Here is an overview of programs that would be cut: Job Corps (eliminated, –$1.6bn) Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) (–$395m) OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grants (eliminated) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) (defunded) Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) reductions (–$46m)
https://www.newsweek.com/list-of-programs-trump-2027-budget-proposal-would-cut-11780685
https://archive.ph/jRPQ6

More than 20 people injured after driver crashes into crowd at Louisiana parade
The driver, who has not been publicly identified, is in custody, according to a statement from the Iberia parish sheriff’s office. Some of the injuries are believed to be serious, authorities said. Eleven people were transported by ground and two by air, according to first responders.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/louisiana-parade-car-crash

Message to Senate Dems: No Confirmation of New AG Without Commitment on Epstein Files Release
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NDF: Assert Bangsamoro Self-Determination! Expose the Marcos Jr. Regime’s Sabotage of the Peace Process
The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Mindanao stands with the Bangsamoro people in confronting the deepening crisis in the peace process under the regime of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. What is unfolding is neither delay nor mismanagement of the peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front—it is the necessary outcome of a reactionary state bound to imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism. The peace process is being implemented in a manner that preserves ruling class control over Moro land, resources, and political authority, ensuring the continuity of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal order that denies the Bangsamoro their right to genuine self-determination. The Bangsamoro question is a national question rooted in land dispossession and national oppression. The majority of Moro people remain landless peasants and poor fisherfolk, with up to 70% living in poverty and lacking access to basic services. This condition is the product of a long historical process through which land and resources were systematically transferred to the alliance of landlords, comprador bourgeoisie, and bureaucrat capitalists in partnership with imperialist interests.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/assert-bangsamoro-self-determination-expose-the-marcos-jr-regimes-sabotage-of-the-peace-process/

Pakistan Plays Peacemaker While Bombing and Blockading Afghan Civilians
“There is a lack of reporting because many people, including journalists or human rights activists from Kabul or abroad don’t visit this region,” said Sher Agha, a local activist from Kunar. Before speaking to Drop Site News on Wednesday, he had visited the funeral of one of the recent attacks’ victims, a little girl named Baharat whose picture was also spread on social media. “Attacks are taking place while I am talking to you. Sarkano district, which lies along the border, is being hit intensely. This is the ongoing situation for weeks,” he added. What emerges from the border are fragments: local testimonies, community statements, and scattered data points. Taken together, however, they reveal a coherent picture of a war fought withoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California
In a Truth Social post on Friday, the US president announced that his vice-president was now “in charge of ‘fraud’ in the United States”, claiming the problem is “massive and pervasive” and that Vance’s new role as “fraud czar” will be “a major factor in how great the future of our country will be”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-vance-fraud-arrest-crackdown-california

Trump proposes to begin privatizing TSA screening operations
TSA has about 50,000 federal employees who handle ⁠screening at nearly all U.S. airports. Budget documents released on Friday said airports currently using the privatization program ​have demonstrated savings compared to federal screening operations.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-proposes-begin-privatizing-us-airport-security-operations-2026-04-03/

University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war
According to reports, on 18 March Fani wrote in a newsletter sent via the center’s listserv that “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class”. The email reportedly added that it “was always BS” that the Islamic Republic was pursuing nuclear weapons. In July, Fani told the student newspaper that “if you tell the dozens of children that were killed in Israeli bombardment, that were killed in Iran, or the families of the nuclear scientists who were just wiped out – I hardly imagine they would say that the world is a more peaceful place”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/washington-college-professor-fired-iran-war-criticism

NYC home health aides press Mamdani to back bill ending 24-hour shifts
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1023 - Camusbian feat. Katherine Krueger (3/30/26) (Chapo Trap House )
We talk about the Return of Rahm, the Democrats looking for a hot candidate, and Katherine’s Disneyland memories. But mostly we let Felix explain the Rob Schneider-Andrea Dworkin-Albert Camus connection. Kind of a gas leak episode here folks.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1023-camusbian-feat-katherine

CC of the Communist Party of the Philippines: People's war is the answer to imperialist war and crisis
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines joyfully extends its greetings to all the valiant Red fighters and commanders of the New People’s Army on this historic day, the 57th anniversary of the founding of the true army of the oppressed people. On this day, let us look back on the unrelenting efforts to advance the revolutionary armed struggle to achieve national freedom and genuine democracy. Let us draw lessons from our long march along the winding path of advances and retreats, defeats and victories. Let us pay tribute to all the heroes and martyrs of the Filipino people who selflessly dedicated their lives to the great cause of liberating the nation from imperialist domination and all forms of oppression and exploitation by the local ruling classes. We owe to their sacrifice all that the people have achieved on the path of revolutionary struggle. Their names and contributions shall never fade from the memory of the people. They are shining stars, serving as beacons, as the people traverse the darkness toward the Red dawn. It is fitting that we celebrate the victories we have achieved in advancing the revolutionary armed struggle in the past year, while mindfully drawing lessons from the bitterness we have experienced. We must firmly grasp these as we press forward on the path of strengthening and advancing our protracted people’s war.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/peoples-war-is-the-answer-to-imperialist-war-and-crisis/

The US and Israel Are Making Gaza-Style War the New Normal
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Judge tosses lawsuit filed by parents of ‘Cop City’ protester who was killed by troopers
The Jan. 18, 2023, shooting of Manuel Paez Terán, known as “Tortuguita,” was a galvanizing moment for the movement to halt the construction of what critics labeled “Cop City,” a sprawling police and firefighter training center that opened last year on the site of a forest and former prison farm just outside Atlanta.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-admin-presents-new-plan-slash-two-thirds-consumer-watchdog-workforce-2026-04-01/

US Congress to pass bills to fully fund Homeland Security, Republican leaders say
The goal, according ​to a source with knowledge of the plan, is to again approve a DHS funding bill that the Senate unanimously passed ​last week, but the Republican-controlled House rejected. That bill would fund DHS to September 30, the end of this fiscal year. Instead of signing off on the bipartisan Senate bill, the House passed a 60-day extension of DHS funding - a measure that Democrats had repeatedly rejected.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-is-working-with-johnson-thune-fund-immigration-agents-2026-04-01/

The surprise winners of Trump's immigration wars
"There was all of this hype that Trump would be friendly toward high-skilled immigration and harder on low-skilled immigration," said Sam Peak, an immigration expert at the Economic Innovation Group. The opposite has been true, including an admission from the administration that seasonal farm labor jobs can't be filled with Americans.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/01/trump-farm-workers-h1b-visas
https://archive.ph/R2PZE

Trump admin presents new plan to slash two thirds of consumer watchdog workforce
President Donald Trump's administration has developed a fresh plan to slash the workforce at the U.S. Consumer FPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

On the brink of war — and paying the price at home
THE world appears to be on the brink of a brutal escalation of the war in the Middle East. Some 10,000 US troops stand ready. Israel’s rulers are using the opportunity to extend their wars of territorial conquest in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky is signing deals with Gulf sheikdoms for the supply of aggressive drone technology. Collateral damage is already being inflicted on those who can no longer afford to heat their homes or buy the food they need. What is the position of our own government? To equivocate. Factories in Britain still contribute to the production of weapons used by the US and Israel. Both in Britain and also, it seems, elsewhere in the Mediterranean and Pacific, British military bases still enable US planes to refuel and utilise their targeting technology. Our Prime Minister professes himself unhappy. Yet in the past week the Metropolitan Police, despite contrary legal judgements, have resumed prosecutions of anyone displaying support for an organisation whose crime it was to draw attention to Britain’s material complicity with Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brink-war-and-paying-price-home

Barbecue, Empire, and Haiti’s Child Soldiers
As the group expands its control over the country, one glaring reality is that a significant portion of its armed members are under 18. Under the command of Jimmy Chérizier, known as “Barbecue,” and his former lieutenant, escaped kidnapper Kempès Sanon, Viv Ansanm deployed these armed youths to sack the sprawling neighborhoods of Solino. Their assault has displaced over 125,000 people across 24 different communities. “Viv Ansanm burned us out of our homes because we were one of the last bastions of peace and resistance left in Pòtoprens [Port-au-Prince],” said Ezayi Jules, a spokesperson for the community. “They reduced our neighborhoods to ashes. Now our families are homeless as Barbecue runs around everywhere talking about his “revolution.’” Beginning in 2018, Viv Ansanm and its predecessor, the G-9 gang alliance, have targeted and invaded neighborhoods that had long been bulwarks of popular resistance agains the interests of big capital and foreign domination. The numbers speak for themselves. Armed grouPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Lawsuits Expected After Trump Orders Creation of National Voter List, Mail-In Voting Crackdown
Just days after the GOP-controlled Senate skipped town once they failed to send a voter suppression bill to President Donald Trump’s desk, the Republican on Tuesday signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of US voters and crack down on voting by mail—which is how he voted in Florida’s most recent election.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-voting-executive-order

US counterterror officials plan antifa summit, sources say
The conference, tentatively planned for June or July, will convene officials from various nations to discuss strategies for battling antifa and encourage intelligence sharing, said the sources, who requested anonymity ‌as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-counterterror-officials-plan-antifa-summit-sources-say-2026-03-31/

The wellness world is eager for RFK Jr.'s promised move on peptides
Peptides are a string of amino acids, smaller than a protein, that are produced naturally by our body. Interest in synthetic versions of some of these has skyrocketed with people touting them for tissue repair, skin health, longevity and more.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5768206/peptides-rfk-fda-compounding-pharmacies

Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras
“By equipping residents with tools and partnering closely with our Milpitas police department, we’re building a stronger connection between our community and law enforcement to help deter crime and protect our neighborhoods.” Milpitas police plan to share a link for residents to voluntarily upload doorbell footage and organize community events, where residents can sign up to participate in the program, said Tyler Jamison, the Milpitas assistant chief of police.
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Communist Front (Italy): Italian communists welcome Meloni’s referendum defeat, call for broader political struggle
In a result described as a “clear political slap” to the far-right government of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s recent referendum on justice reforms has produced a decisive rejection of the proposed constitutional changes. According to the Communist Front (Italy), the outcome reflects not only opposition to a specific reform, but a wider and deepening discontent with the current political direction of the country. The organization emphasized that the victory of the “No” vote came alongside a higher-than-expected voter turnout—an element they interpret as a significant and active expression of political dissent. In their assessment, this opposition extends beyond traditional anti-government circles, encompassing a broader segment of society than the ruling coalition’s electoral base. At the heart of the referendum was a reform strongly backed by the government itself, presented as a cornerstone initiative aimed at consolidating political power ahead of future elections. The Communist Front argues that its rejection signals a failure of this strategy, describing the reform as part of a broader trajectory of “authoritarian tendencies” promoted by the executive.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/italian-communists-welcome-melonis-referendum-defeat-call-for-broader-political-struggle.html

Right-Wing Governments in Latin America Face Short Honeymoons
Chile’s new right-wing president, José Antonio Kast has just taken office and protests against the government have already begun. Thousands of high school students have taken to the streets to protest fuel price hikes and attacks on public education. The first question that comes to mind is whether these students represent a new generation of activists, foreshadowing further mobilizations. And will a workers’ movement take up the banners of struggle alongside them? This resistance will have to be built, navigating the mediating (and outdated) leadership of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, as well as the Broad Front of former president Gabriel Boric. Our comrades from the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (PTR) of Chile, who are part of our internatPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

ICE announces death of another Mexican detainee in US immigration custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Monday that Mexican immigrant Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano was found unresponsive at a processing centre in California last week and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/ice-announces-death-of-another-mexican-detainee-in-us-immigration-custody
https://archive.ph/kiZxz

US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports
A broker for U.S. Defense ​Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted ‌to make a big investment in major ​defense companies ​in the weeks leading up ⁠to the ​U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, ​the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing three ​people familiar with ​the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-defense-secretary-hegseths-broker-looked-buy-defense-fund-before-iran-attack-2026-03-30/

Washington 'millionaires tax' poised to become law with Gov. Ferguson's signature Monday
The measure would impose a 9.9% tax on annual income above $1 million, including dual-income households. Ferguson, a Democrat, has championed the proposal and said it will affect less than one-half of 1% of Washington households. He has said the revenue would fund expansions to the Working Families Tax Credit, extending benefits to about 460,000 additional households, provide relief for some small businesses, and pay for child care and free breakfast and lunch for all K-12 students.
https://komonews.com/news/local/washington-governor-bob-ferguson-to-sign-millionaires-tax-bill-on-monday-morning-state-code-income-small-business-sports-public-services-constitutionality-debate

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1021 - Illusion USA (3/23/26) (Chapo Trap House)
The fight in the gas station parking lot continues to escalate; luckily, Will, Felix, and Chris are all together in person to walk you through it. We talk about Israel attacking South Pars Gas Field without telling us, more planes crashing both abroad and at home, and the potential of a disastrous ground operation on Kharg Island looming. Plus: Elon Musk’s based son, Zohran and “left-wing antisemitism,” and a eulogy for Chuck Norris,
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1021-illusion-usa-3-23-26

RIZOSPASTIS: World Anti-Imperialist Platform Whitewashing of US imperialism
Until now, its was clear that through their analyses they sought to whitewash the principal forces of the emerging Eurasian imperialist axis (China, Russia). Now, however, the WAP’s “interpretation” of international developments goes so far as to make room even for Trump. Such views stem from a complete detachment from the struggles of the working class, from erroneous opportunist theories about the imperialist system, and from the refusal to fulfil the duty of the working class and the peoples to develop an independent strategy against the bourgeois classes and imperialist alliances. Based on their crude and unscientific analysis, according to which bourgeois forces worldwide are divided into supporters of “globalization” (see Kamala Harris) and “chauvinists” (see Donald Trump, etc.), communists are urged to side with the latter and even establish forms of tactical cooperation with them. Thus, in a recent article —a monument to shameless opportunism— the “organizer” of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, writing under the pseudonym Stephen Cho, claims, among other things, that: “The fact that the Republican Party appeals to the founding ideals of the United States, which include a spirit of independence, cannot be ignored” and similarly that “meanwhile, chauvinists do not oppose war in principle; rather, they avoid and refrain from wars they do not desire”. The culmination, of course, is his call that: “Anti-imperialist forces including the communist forces can’t form a tactical joint front with chauvinist and conservative forces, but they can engage in tactical cooperation with them”. He further adds: “Tactical cooperation, in the sense of acting Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Navy shipyard workers approve a contract deal with Bath Iron Works, ending weeklong strike
Members of the Bath Marine Draftsmen’s Association ratified a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that goes into effect immediately, the shipyard said. That followed an hourslong union meeting at a high school. “We look forward to working together once again to deliver the Navy’s ships on time to protect our nation and our families,” Bath Iron Works, known for the slogan “Bath built is best built,” said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/shipyard-strike-maine-bath-iron-works-b0e609d517213f718800844c10f7eb23

Hialeah Cuban woman stripped of U.S. citizenship over $6 million Medicare fraud scheme, judge rules
According to a DOJ press release, Cabrera Diaz was convicted in 2019 of conspiring to commit health care fraud. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $6 million in restitution. As part of her plea, prosecutors said Cabrera Diaz admitted she participated in the scheme years before she became a citizen.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/united-states-citizenship-revoked-medicare-fraud-hialeah-cuba/

Third No Kings protest draws millions from across US to push back on Trump administration
More than 3,000 No Kings protests against the Trump administration were held nationwide and in more than a dozen countries on Saturday, according to a coalition of organizers that includes “anti-authoritarian” groups Indivisible and 50501, labor unions and other grassroots organizations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/28/no-kings-protests-trump

Home insurance rates set to jump in these states, report says
Insurers are changing their policies to minimize their claims exposure, according to Insurify, which often means more risk for homeowners. The states projected to see the largest rate hikes in 2026, Insurify data scientists sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

assembly.org.ua : The war has entered its fifth year. On the intensification of street guerrilla in Ukraine
For nearly 1,500 days and nights, the shadow of death has swirled over our Slobozhanshchina, and the sickle of warfare has reaped the harvest of life. Despite the predictions of the front's collapse last year—some with fear, others with hope that everyone would finally be able to leave—it still stands near Volchansk, Chasov Yar, Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), and Gulyaipole. The deadline for a hypothetical agreement has been pushed back again to late spring. No threats of sanctions against the Kiev authorities from the Trump’s fascist administration, which proudly admits to raping children if it was "a very good deal that will help them become great." The UN is also in no hurry to install a temporary administration under its auspices in Ukraine, modeled on East Timor. The drowning one's salvation remains his own doing. Broad resistance to drafting in Ukraine we recently compared to the resistance to ICE in previous article "From Minneapolis to Ukraine, only street countering can stop the state-run hunt for people". The problem is that, as in the United States, it is not strong enough to change the overall situation. After the complete devastation of our revolutionary field by Stalinism, the tradition of mass street movements disappeared in Ukraine, except in support of some right-wing politicians: 1991, 2004, 2014… Rebuilding it from scratch takes a lot of time and has been underway for two years now, since the law tightening mobilization was adopted on April 11, 2024. However, since late 2025, we see a new trend: people against the war are moving from self-defense to counter-strike. Almost every day there are news reports of armed attacks against police or enlistment groups, mostly in rear regions like Odessa or West Ukraine. This is no longer like today's United States, but rather like during the Vietnam War!
https://libcom.org/article/war-has-entered-its-fifth-year-intensification-street-guerrilla-ukraine

The Kathy Hochul Donors in the Jeffrey Epstein Files
For nearly a year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been calling on the Donald Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Well, they’ve been released —Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Workers' strike at one of the largest US meatpacking plants will continue
Thousands of striking workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants will extend their walkout to a third week as they push for higher wages and better health care. Industry experts said it’s too early to know if the strike that began March 16 at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, will impact beef prices for shoppers.
https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/workers-strike-largest-us-meatpacking-plants-continue-3rd-131475996

‘Shameful’: Trump Threatens to Redirect Student Loan Borrowers to Most Expensive Repayment Plans
Anonymous officials told The Post that those who do not switch plans within three months of receiving the email will automatically be re-enrolled in the Standard Plan. Unlike SAVE, which is income-based, the Standard plan has borrowers pay a fixed rate over 10 years.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/student-loan-forgiveness-redirect

Plot to firebomb Palestinian activist’s home disrupted by NYPD undercover operation, authorities say
An official who was briefed on the investigation said Heifler, 26, identified as a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, a New Jersey-based group founded in 2024 that describes its membership as “Jewish warriors” fighting back against rising antisemitism.
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-nypd-nerdeen-kiswani-e8fa38819b4f65f830b26b640d44cd72

Vance takes aim at Minnesota in first federal anti-fraud task force hearing
Joining the task force was Colin McDonald, a top aide to the Justice Department's second in command. He was recently confirmed as the assistant attorney general overseeing the new division at the department focused on prosecuting fraud. The Justice Department has long prosecuted fraud nationally through its Criminal Division, but the Trump administration says the new division is needed to crack down on rampant fraud.
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At No Kings: Let’s Flood the Streets to Demand the Abolition of ICE, Full Rights for Immigrants, and an End to the Imperialist War Against Iran
On March 28, No Kings and dozens of unions, community organizations, and left-wing groups across the country are calling for a mobilization under the slogan: No ICE, No War, No Kings. This cannot be just another mobilization; it must be a historic surge of millions so that Donald Trump and the Epstein gang hear us loud and clear. Trump and the Far Right were defeated in Minneapolis by the massive grassroots movement that brought about the end of Operation Metro Surge and the firing of Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security. The Epstein scandal has shown millions that capitalism and violence against women and children go hand in hand with the systematic oppression of the most vulnerable by those who rule the world. Further, it revealed that several leaders of the ruling class from both parties are responsible for the rape, torture, and trafficking of over a thousand women and girls. In this first year of Trump’s presidency, the rights of trans people have been trampled upon in a super-conservative offensive that demonstrates just how authoritarian and reactionary the Far Right’s agenda is.
https://www.leftvoice.org/at-no-kings-lets-flood-the-streets-to-demand-the-abolition-of-ice-full-rights-for-immigrants-and-an-end-to-the-imperialist-war-against-iran/

Why Israel's defence in ICJ genocide case has disintegrated
Last week, Israel suddenly dropped charges against five soldiers accused of the sexual abuse and rape of a male Palestinian prisoner. This development was grotesque - all the more so, since there is no shortage of evidence. The soldiers were filmed as the atrocity was allegedly committed. As for the victim, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has cited medical records showing that his injuries included a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs. In this article, however, we will not dwell on the moral squalor of the decision by Military Advocate General Itai Ofir to abandon the case. We will examine instead the consequences for Israel’s ongoing defence against genocide chargPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Army extends maximum recruitment age to 42, allowing older recruits to join
The average age of recruits is going up marginally, going from 21 years old in 2010 to nearly 23 years old last year, service data reviewed by ABC News shows. Additionally, the Army will now allow enlistments of individuals with only one marijuana-related conviction.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/army-extends-maximum-recruitment-age-42-allowing-older/story?id=131411519

Sanders and AOC unveil data center moratorium bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday will announce legislation to pause all new data center construction nationwide until AI safeguards are in place.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/sanders-aoc-data-center-moratorium-bill

US Senators reach deal on capping insulin costs at $35 per month, Semafor reports
Shaheen is making ​an urgent push to ‌pass ⁠legislation to reduce the cost of insulin before her ​retirement ​from ⁠Congress, teaming with Senators Susan ​Collins, Raphael ​Warnock ⁠and John Kennedy, according to the ⁠Semafor ​report.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-senators-reach-deal-capping-insulin-costs-35-per-month-semafor-reports-2026-03-25/

TSA tipped off ICE in arrest of mother and child at San Francisco airport
The report, which cites federal documents, adds a new dimension to the arrest by ICE officers that went viral this week, casting new scrutiny on the Trump administration’s information-sharing agreements that critics say are leading to more indiscriminate immigration arrests.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/tsa-tip-off-ice-san-francisco-airport
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