 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Nothing progressive can come from prosecuting Trump based on the Espionage Act. For over a century, the Espionage Act has served as the sharpest legal implement in the toolshed of state reaction, used for the purpose of suppressing opposition to imperialist war. On Monday, NATO launched the largest airborne war game in the alliance's history, with hundreds of aircraft fighting a simulated war with Russia. An expert in the modeling of public health policies and outcomes, Chakravarty traces the collapse of COVID mitigation to a series of deliberate decisions made in the early stages of the pandemic. International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 29 President Ray Leyba threatened to deny employment to any dockworker who spoke with WSWS reporters. New legislation outlawing strikes and mass protests by teachers, healthcare employees and other sections of the working class signals a return to dictatorial methods of rule. Workers are determined to win back decades of pro-company concessions, dramatic improvements to their working conditions, wages and hours and an end to management harassment. But the Teamsters apparatus under General President Sean O'Brien, a career official being falsely recast as a rank-and-file militant, is preparing a pro-company sellout behind closed doors. At Royal Mail's Craigavon delivery office in Northern Ireland, the CWU postal executive has blocked a unanimous strike vote against revisions and the suspension of two reps. CWU national officials are functioning openly as strike-breakers. Waters' steadfast criticism of NATO's war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere. As usual, the Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has refused to denounce his Nazi supporters. In one incident, an elderly imam was allegedly shot and killed, despite being unarmed and in detention. The military command and the government defended the conduct of the soldiers involved. At their meeting in Luxembourg last Thursday, EU interior ministers effectively abandoned the right of asylum for refugees. In the midst of skyrocketing inflation, DTE Energy is raising rates on consumers, asking hard-pressed workers to curtail activities between 3-7 PM. At present the betting in financial markets is that the Fed will try to thread the needle, announcing a "pause" in rate increases at this meeting while indicating that further rises may take place and ruling out any cuts this year even as the US economy continues to slow. Calls for the banning of the classical musicians expose the bogus claims that the US-led NATO war against Russia is a "human rights" endeavour and reveal its anti-democratic, chauvinist and reactionary character. The estate management fears that the defence campaign for the witch-hunted workers will inspire estate workers to fight for their social and democratic rights against the attacks of the government and companies. "How do you tell your children you won't see them again, and when you do, you have no money to do anything with them?" said one worker, who lost $10,000 a year in pay. "I mean, how is this acceptable?" City officials in Davenport, Iowa announced June 5 that the bodies of three missing men had been found buried underneath the rubble of the collapsed apartment building at 324 Main Street. Road maintenance workers, steel workers and resident doctors joined the battle against raging inflation in Argentina, while the union for locomotive builders at Wabtec in the US blocked a strike and will submit management's "final offer" for a vote. 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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