 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Hunger in America is surging due to the combination of soaring food prices, stagnating wages, growing unemployment and the Trump administration's unrelenting assault on social programs. The entire top leadership of the Trump administration declared their support for a civil war in America based on an explicitly Christian-nationalist political perspective. Trump named a personal attorney as a replacement and demanded Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute Democratic politicians and former FBI director James Comey. This lecture was delivered by Katja Rippert, a member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), at the SEP (US) 2025 International Summer School. The emergence of corruption charges over the past four months is bound up with the political volatility of the Asia-Pacific region as it confronts the uncertainty and economic havoc of the Trump tariffs, and the mounting danger of war between the US and China. Around 10,000 workers joined the two-day protest in Colombo, opposing the government's pro-business restructuring of the electricity board. The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is facing an unprecedented crisis with rank-and-file opposition growing against its collusion with the corporations and the Trump administration. UAW President Shawn Fain halted the strike, in a further signal to the Trump administration that the union bureaucracy can be relied on to suppress working-class opposition. Close to two-thirds of the more than 3,100 people Detroit ICE arrested from January to July had no convictions. Most had never been charged with a crime. Residents say government and Purdue University officials have ignored health and safety concerns to force through the construction of a massive microchip plant in a residential neighborhood. US President Trump is continuing to make strenuous efforts to bring the Fed under his direct control to engineer a cut in rates as the interest bill on US government debt mounts. On September 10, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum announced a legislative proposal that would slap tariffs of between 10 percent and 50 percent on a wide range of goods. Hiroshima has been represented in countless visual forms, from iconic black-and-white images of devastation to stark documentary evidence and evocative memorials. In recent years, a movement has emerged with the declared aim of moving beyond direct representation of death and destruction. Two weeks ago, the IG Metall union pushed through the destruction of 2,900 jobs at Ford's Cologne plant. Now, the company is starting one-shift operations, heralding further job losses and the future of the plant altogether. More than 2,000 UK bus drivers at three companies began a four-day strike across Greater Manchester Friday, after rejecting substandard pay offers. Further strikes are planned from September 30 to October 2. The revelation underscores the reactionary character of the forces being cultivated by the Australian political establishment, including the Labor government. Mining giants BHP Mitsubishi Alliance and Anglo American are threatening the livelihoods and futures of coking coal mine workers in Queensland's Bowen Basin and beyond. Doctors were not just rejecting the rotten deal, but its tacit endorsement by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation. US, UK-backed regime change in Yugoslavia; Second assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford; US forces recapture Seoul in Korean War; Hindu fascist RSS founded in India. 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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