Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES

WITH US-Mexico talks on a “new Nafta” heating up and facing a deadline to send a pact to Capitol Hill, union leaders met President Donald Trump at the White House on August 21 to warn him against making a bad deal.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka led the delegation, which included Steelworkers’ president Leo Gerard. Trumka issued a warning flag for the president in advance and the others stayed mum.
The AFL-CIO communications staff did not return either a call or an email seeking names of other participants.

The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG


