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The names of Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio and Miller will live in perpetual infamy alongside those of the Nazi ringleaders of the Third Reich: Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Von Ribbentrop and Goebbels. The judgment of history will be merciless.

On Wednesday, House and Senate Republicans announced an agreement on legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the exception of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol, a component of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson said passage of the bill to partially reopen DHS, passed by the Senate on a unanimous voice vote on March 27, would be followed by a measure to resume funding of ICE and the Border Patrol by means of the budget reconciliation process. That legislative path bypasses the Senate filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes to pass a bill. As a result, Senate Republicans, who narrowly control the upper chamber, could pass a bill to resume funding of ICE and the Border Patrol by a simple majority, even if all Senate Democrats voted against it.

Behind the backs of the Australian population, the Albanese government last month dispatched approximately 90 Special Air Service (SAS) commandos to participate in the escalating US-Israeli assault on Iran.

This secret deployment shows that nothing that the Labor government says about the war can be believed, including its repeated claims that it is not involved in the Trump administration’s barbaric offensive.

To understand the content of Habermas’ work—and why the limitations of his thought carry consequences that extend far beyond academic philosophy—one must begin not with the man but the political environment in which his life and career unfolded. Habermas was 15 when the Nazi regime collapsed. West Germany after 1945 was a society haunted by its fascist past, administered in many cases by men who had participated in and accommodated themselves to the Nazi regime, and ideologically committed to a ferocious anti-communism that not only precluded a genuine democratic reckoning but also covered up and legitimized Nazi crimes.

Iranian air defenses shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle jet over western Iran Friday, the first US aircraft shot down by Iranian fire since the war began. Following the downing, US special forces launched a rescue operation inside Iran to recover the pilot. Axios reported that “US special forces located one of the crew members and rescued him, alive, on Iranian territory.” The other crew member remains missing inside Iran.

NHS FightBack calls for the dropping of all charges against 31-year-old Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan under the Terrorism Act (2000) and the Public Order Act (1986). The charges against the National Health Service (NHS) trainee surgeon, for opposing the genocide in Gaza, are a fundamental attack on all healthcare workers and their rights to freedom of political expression, protest and free speech.

Dr. Aladwan, of Palestinian heritage, has worked in the NHS for seven years with a spotless employment record. She has been targeted relentlessly by Zionist lobby groups and the British state, based on groundless claims that her opposition to Zionism and pro-Palestinian activism pose a risk to patient safety.

On Sunday, Dakkota Integrated Systems auto parts workers in Chicago voted down a fourth attempt by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to ram through a sellout contract, defying threats from union officials of a lockout and the loss of their jobs. 

The contract was rejected by 54 percent in a snap re-vote on the deal, called by the UAW immediately after workers rejected a third contract on Friday. The defeat of four UAW-endorsed tentative agreements by autoworkers is unprecedented in recent memory.

Dakkota workers marched into an explosive meeting Sunday determined to stand their ground. Workers chanted, “Hell no! We vote ‘No’!” ahead of the meeting, taking with them a recent statement of the Dakkota Workers Rank-and-File Committee calling for a “No” vote and rejecting the UAW-corporate blackmail.

Two weeks since the deadly blaze in Daejeon, South Korea that killed 14 workers and injured 60 more at an auto parts plant, the investigation has revealed the complete disregard for safety that led up to the tragedy. These disasters are not unpredictable accidents, but are the result of capitalism’s relentless drive for profit at the expense of the working class.

By a vote of 62 to 48, Israel’s Knesset approved a law Monday enshrining the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians who carry out an “act of terrorism” on citizens of Israel.

For decades, one has been subjected to the moral lectures of petty-bourgeois journalists and academics, whose principal historical occupation has been to discover, in the conduct of the Bolsheviks and above all of Leon Trotsky, proofs of the supposedly sinister essence of Marxist “amoralism.” They have filled libraries with denunciations of revolutionary violence, meditations on the “authoritarian impulse,” and pious reflections on the alleged contempt of Marxists for ethical restraint.

Student youth and workers are instructed to believe that the central moral problem of the modern age lies in the intransigence of those who sought to overthrow capitalism. Yet these same circles, when confronted with the actual barbarism of imperialism, display remarkable forbearance. Their categorical condemnations dissolve into nuance. Their moral fervor wanes, and their hostility to violence becomes exquisitely selective. They find endless reserves of moral outrage—which has not subsided even after the passage of more than a century—over the Russian Revolution of 1917. But they are mute when the United States incinerates a society, when Israel buries children beneath rubble, when torture is systematized, when police execute the poor and the dispossessed in American streets. The class content of morality emerges here with extraordinary clarity.

The career of Dr. Stanley Plotkin demands serious attention. Plotkin, widely revered as the “godfather of vaccines,” is 93 years old. In the March 2, 2026 edition of STAT News, journalist Helen Branswell traced the arc of his career and recorded his despairing assessment of the present moment, in a profile titled, “A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away.” Plotkin’s verdict was unsparing: that the field’s achievements are slipping away, that vaccine nihilism is rising, and that he does not know how to counter it. His longtime colleague Walter Straus noted that Plotkin is watching his life’s work dismantled, in some cases repudiated, on specious grounds.

Branswell’s profile is a work of genuine sympathy for a scientist who has earned it. But sympathy without analysis has its own political function at a moment of crisis. It renders Plotkin’s despair moving rather than explicable, leaving the reader with grief but no framework for understanding why this is happening or what would need to change. In this the STAT piece is not an exception to the broader media failure—it is its most accomplished expression.

In a nearly unanimous vote, Nexteer Automotive workers in Saginaw, Michigan rejected a concessions-laden contract backed by the United Auto Workers. According to UAW Local 699, workers rejected the deal by 96.2 percent, with 98 percent of production workers and 82.8 percent of skilled trades workers voting down the UAW-backed deal.

The vote was a staggering rebuke to UAW President Shawn Fain and the Local 699 leadership, which attempted to ram through a contract that would pay $19 an hour to new hires, expand the hated two-tier wage and benefit system, and impose higher out-of-pocket health care expenses for workers hired after May 2021.  

Christopher Godshall-Bennett, attorney for Nerdeen Kiswani, the Palestinian activist who was targeted in a Zionist assassination plot, speaks at a press conference in NYC.

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Trump threatened that unless the Iranian government accepts his demands, “we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that’s the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone, and there’s not a thing they could do about it.”

In other words, if Iran does not totally capitulate and become effectively a colonial protectorate of the United States, Trump declared his intent to wipe out everything that sustains modern life for 90 million people and not give them “even a small chance of survival.”

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"Americans don't want this war."

"Democrats are controlled opposition for fascism."

"We need class consciousness."

"Take over the means of production, and use our labor to fight back."

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The strike by 3,800 JBS meatpackers in Greeley, Colorado has now been extended into its third week, a significant development in the growing confrontation between workers and one of the largest meatpacking corporations in the world.

Previously, officials from the United Food Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 had indicated that it would limit the strike to two weeks. That workers remain out shows both their determination and the depth of the anger over poverty wages, dangerous working conditions and soaring healthcare costs and the company’s refusal to meet their demands.

Humans and their ancestors have, over millions of years, developed a capacity for culture that is qualitatively different from that of any other species, based on abstract symbolic thought and characterized by open endedness. Humans have the ability to learn and execute complex sequences of steps to accomplish an ultimate goal. These steps or subgoals are “modular” in the sense that they can be employed individually to accomplish a number of different tasks. Furthermore, they can be creatively recombined in novel sequences to meet new needs.

Based on this highly enhanced capacity for culture, humans have spread more widely across the globe, inhabiting a greater variety of environments, than any other vertebrate species. Newly published research (Perreault, 2026, PNAS, “Cultural evolution accelerated human range expansion by more than two orders of magnitude”) compares the range of ecological settings occupied by humans with those of a range of other mammalian species, demonstrating the qualitative advantage conferred on humans due to their unique capacity for culture. 

David North was barred from addressing No Kings rally in Nürnberg, Germany. North is chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site. He wrote, "They would not allow me to speak and condemn the illegal war against Iran, which the Democrats support."

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