 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Trump, reviving the tradition of the far-right "America Firsters" of the World War II era, speaks for layers of the American ruling class oriented toward war in the Pacific and the confrontation with China. Workers across Canada and all North America must come to the defence of the more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, who are courageously defying a federal government strikebreaking order. Over the weekend three Republican governors announced plans to supplement Trump's deployment of D.C. National Guard, bringing the total number of troops in the capital city to 1,500. "They just would keep rigging things together, not fixing stuff. The batteries need to be taken down one at a time and completely repaired," said one steelworker. "They just didn't want to spend the money." Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, has been hit by repeated respiratory outbreaks most likely caused by COVID-19. Prisoners report inhumane conditions and denied medical care, while politically connected contractors profit from its operation, exposing a system designed to punish rather than protect. Daulagala—affectionately known among party comrades and friends as "Daule"—passed away at home on August 13, at the age of 77, following a prolonged illness. We will not be cannon fodder for the profits of the rich! For a socialist perspective against the reintroduction of conscription! The release of Roger Waters' film of the performance in Prague on May 25, 2023 of the rock concert "This is Not a Drill" provides an opportunity for a wider global audience to experience in full a powerful expression of art and politics. The Democratic Socialists of America's 2025 convention reaffirmed its role as a faction of the Democratic Party, promoting the trade union bureaucracy and blocking genuine working class opposition. As the protest politics they have peddled for the past two years is increasingly exposed, the pseudo-left groups have doubled down on their insistence that opposition to the genocide must orient to the very parties complicit in the war crimes. The cuts at WSU are part of a wave of retrenchments and associated pro-corporate restructuring being inflicted throughout Australia's 39 public universities under the Albanese Labor government. August 14 marked the final day for state Republicans and Democrats to fund mass public transportation, forcing the transit system to begin enacting punishing cuts to its workforce and the working class. Chinese Stalinist crackdown on peasants; Pathet Lao take power in Vientiane; Belgian Communist Party leader assassinated; Chinese nationalist leader murdered in Canton. The Department of Homeland Security has reassigned over 100 employees from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for 90‑day assignments, according to DHS officials. 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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