 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Friday morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a 1977 emergency law did not delegate Congressional authority over setting tariffs to the president, revealing sharp divisions among the capitalists and triggering an unprecedented attack on the court and individual justices by Trump. The Trump administration is assembling the largest concentration of American military force in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, placing the United States on the brink of a massive illegal war against Iran that could last weeks or months and engulf the entire region. According to an assessment by The i Paper published Saturday, since last Tuesday, "at least 28 US military flights have used airbases in the UK and Cyprus to carry out one of the largest build-ups of US military strength in the Middle East for decades." The Trump administration has placed a Stanford economist who championed mass infection policies during COVID-19 as the single official in charge of both the NIH and CDC. We are publishing below the foreword to the German edition of the new book Where is America Going? Fascism or Socialism (edited by David North), which will soon be published by Mehring Verlag. Five students and one adult were arrested after police attacked a protest against ICE raids and detentions. This suppression of socialist ideas serves to channel the explosive potential of youth into mere harmless appeals to politicians, while the ruling class prepares an entire generation for war. Plans for a 10,000-bed immigrant detention complex in Georgia would represent the largest construction of a civilian mass detention facility in the United States since the Japanese American internment camps of 1942. The struggle is not over because the new contract will not satisfy the nurses' needs. But the experience of the strike shows it must be waged on a new strategy based on rank-and-file control. During the 2011 earthquake, 115 people were killed in the poorly constructed CTV building, which breached numerous regulations, yet those responsible for its design have faced no accountability. The WGAW staff strike is unfolding amid growing wave of workers' struggles as healthcare, education and entertainment workers confront austerity and repression. The decision of Britain's premier cultural institution to cave into Zionist browbeating has prompted a furious backlash from scholars in Middle Eastern history, archaeologists and experts in ancient Levantine cultures. Labor's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke described the attempt to prohibit Hizb-ut Tahrir as "the first time we have been able to ban a group which falls short of a terrorist listing." The raid is the first known enforcement action in the national capital under the Commonwealth hate-symbol provisions and is being treated as a test case. Supreme Court upholds $45 million fine on pilots union; British government criminalizes Irish Republican activity; 22nd Amendment to US Constitution ratified; American communist tried for blasphemy. About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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