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- In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an executive order that claimed to end collective bargaining rights for nearly the whole federal workforce. Early estimates have the move affecting 700,000 to 1 million federal workers, including at the Veterans Administration and the Departments of Defense, Energy, State, Interior, Justice, Treasury, Health and Human Services, and even Agriculture. Labor Notes
- Yesterday Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on all of America’s trading partners, with the explicit aim of “liberating” the US from unfair trade. Not only are these efforts confused, they will lock America in a cycle of stagnation and inflation. Jacobin
- What is the heart of democracy? Is it elections? The rule of law? Is it institutional processes that protect minorities from the rule of majorities? The case of Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader who was recently found guilty of embezzlement, cuts to the heart of the question. Novara
- Some 40 people form a circle on the dusty, late-summer grass. Following days of uncertainty and fear, cut off from most forms of communication, families from Mapuche communities in Argentina’s Chubut province gather to talk about what happened to them on Feb. 11. At 7 AM that Tuesday, hundreds of Argentina’s armed provincial and federal police forces raided their homes, smashing windows and destroying belongings. The special forces, wielding assault rifles, held men, women and children at gunpoint for more than ten hours. CounterPunch
Analysis
Trump’s tariffs hit Italian wine sector in regions governed by the far right
Angelo MastrandreaThe embarrassed silence from the right-wingers is tied to the fact that those who will be suffering as a result of the tariffs will be mainly the northern regions governed by the right, and the effects are likely to throw the already-shaky political alliances in crisis.
Just as we were celebrating a happy ending in the Ballal case, we had to witness the murder of a young man who had become well-known and respected among those who are following these events.
The March 27 rulings reveal that the Israeli Supreme Court is a colonial court, protecting the rights of the settler population while legitimizing dispossession, displacement and horrific violence.
The problem with a hegemonic crisis is that an alternative hegemony must be built, possibly through a global multilateral agreement. That is easier said than done.
While the civilian population of Gaza and the West Bank continues to suffer due to military operations and occupation, the war companies and their major shareholders are seeing their profits increase through growing arms sales.
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