Austerity

May Day Strong Movement Maps Plans At Nationwide Meeting

April 14, 2026 People's World. Organize! Austerity, Labor Movement, May Day, National Day of Action, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights

With a month to go before mass marches and boycotts are planned nationwide, the May Day Strong movement for “No Work, No School, No Shopping” is accelerating. Hundreds of organizations from coast to coast, including both big teachers unions—the Teachers/AFT and the National Education Association, the nation’s largest union—signed up with the Labor for Democracy coalition. So have National Nurses United (NNU), locals from AFSCME and the Communications Workers, Starbucks Workers United, Jobs With Justice, and United Service Workers West/SEIU. It represents custodians, building engineers, and security personnel, among others.

Our Political Class Goes All In On A Permanent War State

April 11, 2026 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Educate! Austerity, Iran, Ruling Elites, Wars and Militarism, Working Class

Less than 24 hours after the U.S.-Israeli coalition bombed oil depots around Tehran on March 7, blanketing the city of 10 million with smoke that blotted out the sun, Brenda — 6,300 miles away in South Baltimore — found out she had lost her food stamps. She had checked the status of her SNAP benefits after I had first interviewed her a few days prior about the United States spending billions on war with Iran while Americans like her struggle to eat. When she logged in to the online portal, she discovered her food stamps had been terminated.

Millions Lose Food Aid As Trump’s Budget Law Reshapes SNAP

April 10, 2026 Alexis Sterling, Nation of Change. Educate! Austerity, Food Insecurity, SNAP, Trump Administration

Millions of low-income Americans have already lost access to federal food assistance following enactment of the Republican budget law signed by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, according to new analysis examining changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Data published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows SNAP participation fell by 6 percent between July 2025 and December 2025, representing 2.5 million fewer people receiving benefits nationwide. The decline occurred shortly after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also identified as H.R. 1, into law.

New Festival Brings Workers’ Struggle And Solidarity To Cornwall Coast

April 10, 2026 The Canary. Organize! Austerity, Unions, United Kingdom (UK), Working Class

Trade unionists, families, and campaigners will gather on the Cornwall coast this June for Unite on the Hill. It’s a new festival that aims to combine culture, community, and class politics. Branch SW008 of the Unite union is organising the event. It’ll take place from 19–21 June 2026 at Maker Heights (PL10 1LA) and bring together live music, food, and family activities. There’ll be a programme of political discussion addressing issues facing working people in Devon and Cornwall. The festival comes at a time when the region is facing rising levels of insecure, low-paid work and some of the highest rates of child poverty in the UK.

The Quiet Casualties Of War: Americans At Home

April 8, 2026 Kenneth A. Carlson, Scheer Post. Strategize! Austerity, Inflation, Trauma, Wars and Militarism

By the time most Americans encounter war, it arrives not with the thunder of artillery but with the quiet click of a gas pump. The price rolls upward in glowing red numbers. A family of four hesitates in the grocery aisle, comparing brands of eggs and milk. Parents postpone vacations. A small business owner rethinks hiring another employee. No bombs fall here; no air raid sirens pierce the night. Yet the costs ripple through American life all the same. In this quieter sense, we too are casualties of Donald Trump’s war on Iran. War has always traveled far beyond the battlefield.

Trump Says The United States Can’t Afford Day Care

April 3, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle-La Lucha. Educate! Austerity, Child Care, Health Care, Iran, Social safety net, Trump Administration, Wall Street, Wars and Militarism

Stocks fell before Trump finished speaking in his April Fool’s address to the nation. Oil jumped to $109 a barrel. Asian markets dropped. Futures tied to the S&P 500 slid. Borrowing costs rose as the bond market, already strained by weeks of war spending, took another hit. This was not a reaction to the battlefield. It was a reaction to the president of the United States standing before the country with no way out of the war. Trump declared victory and threatened more bombing in the same breath. He said Iran’s military was finished, then promised strikes on power plants and oil facilities in the coming weeks.

Labor’s New Gambit To Tax The Rich

April 1, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Strategize! Austerity, Labor Movement, State budgets, Wealth Tax

The threat of a city government shutdown loomed large in Chicago in December 2025 as the city faced an end-of-year deadline to close a projected $1.2 billion deficit. To counteract the impact of President Donald Trump’s 2025 tax law, Mayor Brandon Johnson had pitched a budget in October that would require some of the law’s biggest beneficiaries to pay more. His proposed payroll tax — on corporations with more than 1,000 employees — would, according to his administration, amount to less than 0.01% of the Trump tax cuts bestowed on companies like Google and Walmart.

Unions, Residents Condemn Mass School Closures And Education Cuts

April 1, 2026 Emma Glazer, People's World. Resist! Austerity, Education, Philadelphia, Public schools

Philadelphia—Outside the February Monthly Action Meeting of the Philadelphia School Board, unions representing Philadelphia School District employees rallied in opposition to a proposed plan that would see more than a dozen school closures. Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT3), Unite Here Local 634, Teamsters Local 502 (CASA), SEIU 32 BJ, and School Police Association of Philadelphia (SPAP) outside of the meeting condemned the 10-year Facilities Master Plan (FMP) presented by Superintendent Dr. Tony Watlington Sr. The previous iterations of the proposal presented a closure of 20 schools.

European Peace Movements Organize Against Militarization

March 20, 2026 Oana Uiorean, People's Dispatch. Resist! Antiwar Movement, Austerity, European Union (EU), Militarization, Youth Activism

Trade unionists, activists, organizers and politicians from the region came together in Brussels on March 14 for a peace conference organized by the Stop Militarization platform. A one-day event in the heart of the EU capital, the gathering brought together 350 participants and offered a plenary session that traced the general issues at the heart of the conference, followed by a choice between four workshops covering European rearmament, youth organizing against militarization, the false promises of military Keynesianism and the genocide in Palestine. The closing plenary centred trade unions that organize against the war industry.

100,000 Join National Strike Against Austerity In Belgium

March 13, 2026 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Anti-Austerity, Austerity, Belgium, Europe, Labor, Militarization, Worker Rights and Jobs

On Thursday, March 12, 100,000 people joined another national demonstration and strike against the anti-people reforms of the so-called Arizona coalition in Belgium. Trade unions, feminist networks, international solidarity organizations, and many more took to the streets in Brussels to oppose plans to promote and finance militarization at the expense of workers’ salaries and pensions. “Our main messages today are: first, ‘stop the pension malus,’ because it’s a punishment that will affect people who can’t work until age 67,” Selena Carbonero Fernandez, general secretary of the trade union confederation FGTB-ABVV, told local media ahead of the action.

Partisan Turin Rises Against Militarization And Repression

February 3, 2026 People's Dispatch. Resist! Austerity, Fascism, Italy, State Repression

On January 31, around 50,000 people mobilized in Turin against the forced closure of the social center Askatasuna and the increasingly repressive policies of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government. Authorities deployed hundreds of police officers, who used tear gas and physical force against demonstrators during the march. The following day, mainstream media and official accounts attempted to shift attention away from the scale of the mobilization and the violence used by the authorities, instead focusing on injuries apparently sustained by a police officer.

The Unraveling Of FEMA

January 21, 2026 Matt Sedlar, Center for Economic Policy and Research. Educate! Austerity, Extreme weather, Federal Workers, FEMA

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had a bad 2025. The year started with staffing cuts and the appointment of a council to determine whether the agency — which handles the federal response to disasters and funds disaster recovery and prevention projects — should continue to exist in its current form. The administration even dismantled a popular grant program that funded disaster mitigation projects. To top it all off, FEMA went through two acting administrators in the course of 12 months: Cameron Hamilton was fired in early May after declaring in congressional testimony that the agency should not be eliminated, and David Richardson stepped down in November after various controversies, including his response to the July Texas floods.

‘Militarization Of Rules And Minds’ In Europe Threatens Workers And Welfare

January 20, 2026 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Austerity, Europe, Keynesianism, Militarization, ReArm Europe, Wars and Militarism

The militarization of Europe is advancing rapidly, with everything from public budgets to media narratives increasingly shaped by a war-driven logic. This was one of the key warnings raised by trade unionists, left politicians, and peace activists during a discussion organized by the International Peace Bureau and the No to War – No to NATO network. At the level of the European Union, Belgian MEP Marc Botenga warned that existing rules and safeguards are being pushed aside to accelerate the new military-industrial strategy. He pointed to recent discussions around so-called omnibus legislative packages, particularly proposals designed to ease the operations of the arms industry at the expense of labor rights, environmental protections, and social welfare systems.

Homelessness Providers Stuck In Limbo Awaiting Federal Funds

January 12, 2026 Roshan Abraham, Next City. Resist! Austerity, Homelessness, Housing, Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

The federal government’s largest pool of funds for housing homeless people continues to face uncertainty a year into the second Trump administration. On Nov. 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for its Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, allocating $3.9 billion of competitive federal grants to shelters, permanent supportive housing and other responses to homelessness. At the same time, HUD said it would not renew two-year awards that were approved by Congress in 2024. The grant funds all have different start dates, but renewals were set to start in January, with funds disbursed throughout 2026.

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