 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The deployment of the military onto the streets of Los Angeles—the second-largest city in the United States—marks a qualitative escalation of the Trump administration's ongoing, well-prepared coup d'état. Thousands of outraged residents protested outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in dowtown Los Angeles on Sunday. The militarization of aid in Gaza by the US and Israel is being used to intensify the famine as part of the ethnic cleansing and forced removal of Palestinians from the Strip. While the attendance at the conference reflected rising social anger, it gave no clear perspective on how to smash the influence of liberalism, Stalinism and the union bureaucracies and open a path to revolutionary struggle. The PA cannot organize the working class against Starmer because the unions it fawns over on have no record of struggle on which to mobilize anyone. Students from University of London's SOAS student encampment and the campaign to defend the SOAS 2, who are facing charges under the Terrorism Act (2000) for opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza, spoke from the audience and appealed for support. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) calls on workers, students and youth across the United States and internationally to oppose the warmongering witch-hunting of Chinese researchers Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu. The coalition lining up behind the DSA's mayoral candidate give an indication of the political trap being laid for the working class The AEC's escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the "public interest" to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration. Nurses at Henry Ford Rochester Hospital, who are engaged in a years-long battle against intolerable working conditions, are being locked out for five days by management and contract nurses are being brought in to replace them in response to a planned three-day strike. The action follows the expiration of contracts covering approximately 12,000 Twin Cities nurses who are members of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) on May 31. Metalworkers in Spain's Cantabria region should vote "no" to the sellout pre-agreement imposed by the unions, the employers, and the PSOE–Sumar government, part of a broader confrontation with the capitalist state and its agents in the union bureaucracy. The strike by DHL ground workers at Halle/Leipzig airport must not be left in the hands of the Verdi union, which only recently sold out the strike at Deutsche Post DHL. As is increasingly the case with every "natural" disaster, last month's floods again exposed the unpreparedness and neglect by both the state and federal Labor governments. The political crisis has unfolded against the backdrop of a deteriorating economy and growing social disaster, and amid escalating geo-strategic tensions. Schroeder, Putin meet in Germany; Banks impose financial dictatorship on New York City; First two of Hollywood Ten go to prison; Neue Sachlickeit art exhibition opens. Here again, a small group of guests arrives at a lavish location for a week of relaxation, daily "wellness treatments," gourmet meals and live entertainment. Funding and staff cuts will gut the protection of archaeological sites under the National Historic Preservation Act. 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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