 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Workers cannot fight war and police-state rule under the control of the New Popular Front and its allied trade union bureaucracies, who are signaling their support for war against Russia. Extreme heat events are becoming more common and more extreme as climate change warms the planet With more than 100 million Americans currently affected by high temperatures, working conditions are becoming dangerous across the country. The political significance of the IYSSE's strong election result extends far beyond the campus of Humboldt University. At HU, the extremely acute situation in Germany and internationally finds concentrated expression. US Presidential candidate Joseph Kishore, leading European Trotskyists Alex Lantier and Christoph Vandreier will join SEP candidates Tom Scripps and Darren Paxton to discuss the international struggle against capitalism, genocide and war and for socialism. Last week, the House of Representatives voted to make enrollment in the US Selective Service database automatic, prompting a flood of worried statements by young people and parents on social media about the reimposition of the draft. National Rally President Jordan Bardella is aligning his party with NATO's well-advanced plans for a monumentally reckless military escalation against Russia. Amid the widening auto jobs bloodbath, exposures of further UAW corruption fuels rank-and-file anger Stellantis CEO Carlos Taveres has outlined plans for savage cost cutting, as UAW apparatus is more and more exposed as a corrupt management tool. The significance of the strike, and the police-state measures used to end it, are that they anticipate an even broader and more explosive confrontation between the working class, which is being forced to pay the cost of war, and American and world imperialism. The Putin-Kim summit was a response to the attempts of the US and NATO to link the proxy conflict in Ukraine to a war drive in the Indo-Pacific. Shortly after the inauguration of his fifth term as President in late April, Vladimir Putin has initiated a far-reaching purge of the military leadership. As in the last year, IG Metall and its works council representative are preparing a few hollow protests. At the same time, behind the backs of the workforce, they are conspiring with management to implement a jobs massacre. Ford Spain has announced a new Redundancy Scheme (ERE) at its Almussafes plant, Valencia, which aims to cut 1,622 jobs, a third of the current workforce. From the outset, the spy agency-incited furor over "foreign interference" has served as a means to poison public opinion against China and push official politics and government policy sharply further right. The vicious and racist campaign is designed to justify the fact that the US is turning the Philippines into a base for launching a war against China and to demonize anti-war sentiment. The CFMEU's crude stunt has nothing to do with the interests of construction workers or the broader working class. Actor Matthew Modine's public criticism forced the corporate giant to give way in suppressing anti-war sentiment. Mayor Brandon Johnson's 60-day shelter limit has led to a vast increase in homelessness among migrants as the Democratic Party carries out attacks on immigration. Dr. Vivek Murthy launched a campaign calling for a health warning label requirement to be imposed on social media platforms by Congress. The grubby dispute over MPs' salary hikes further exposes the vast gulf that separates Fiji's venal and corrupt ruling elite from the mass of ordinary people. David Banks, the Chancellor of Schools in New York City removed Tajh Sutton, a well-known education advocate and parent leader in New York City from her elected role as president of Central Education Council 14 in Brooklyn for her opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Cutting across the tribal divides that the Kenyan ruling class systematically cultivates, tens of thousands demonstrated across the whole country. Strikes across manufacturing sector against plant closures and layoffs in Italy; strikes and protests by municipal, oil and factory workers and retirees continue in many cities in Iran over crisis in cost of living; Kenyan clinical officers' stoppage in Kiambu for permanent contracts and pay into its fourth month as one union calls off action, leaving interns as casuals 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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