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In a speech on Tuesday, President Joe Biden effectively gave a green light for Israel's onslaught on Rafah, cynically seeking to exploit the Holocaust to justify US support for the Israeli state's genocide of the Palestinians.

Politically backed by Joe Biden and both big business parties, US police and campus security forces continue to harass, assault and imprison peaceful anti-war students, faculty and supporters.

The annual reports for 2024 released Monday by the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds have become the signal for renewed demands for cuts in retirement and healthcare benefits, which tens of millions of Americans depend on.

The murky stabbing incident, like another a few weeks ago, was immediately seized on to whip up an atmosphere of fear and hysteria over purported terrorist threats.

Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ NYPD has embarked on an authoritarian campaign, challenging its subordination to civil power and moving to criminalize dissent.

Faculty vow not to “stay silent,” but denounce the use of state power to repress free speech and impose mass arrests on protesting students in Detroit and nationally.

A group of RISD students opposing the genocide in Gaza have occupied a campus building, renaming it after Fathi Ghaben, a Palestinian artist who died in Gaza after being denied permission by Israeli authorities to travel abroad for medical treatment.

The Reserve Bank of Australia statement outlining the decision made clear wages are the target, even though they have nothing to do with price hikes.

The strike vote at Warren Stamping, a critical components plant, comes as anger is seething among rank-and-file workers over layoffs and a host of issues.

The continuing refrain in both the US and Europe is that Chinese manufacturing is massively state-subsidised, and this contravenes the “rules-based” order on international trade.

The very public expulsion of Ontario legislator Sarah Jama from the provincial parliament for the “crime” of wearing a keffiyeh was aimed at sending a clear message to all opponents of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians: no opposition will be tolerated.

Heavily-armed riot police stormed a peaceful encampment of anti-genocide protesters on Saturday, risking the safety of those gathered and bystanders, as part of the ongoing state-driven crackdown on anti-genocide protests.

Donald Tusk’s government, which in the election campaign had promised to observe humanitarian norms, is now acting more harshly against defenceless refugees than its ultra-right predecessor.

The 46-year-old worker collapsed on the assembly line at the Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17 and reportedly died of a heart attack.

This is the text of the speech given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the International May Day 2024 Online Rally.