Eight years ago, a sea of angry women, many wearing “pink pussy hats”, descended on Washington a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, in one of the largest political demonstrations in US history.

Recalling the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920, the US government is resorting to police state methods against immigrants in preparation for broader attacks on the entire working class.

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.