 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Protests are erupting today, as the union bureaucracies call protest strikes for next week, with workers and youth across France taking to the streets for "Block Everything" protests. Israel carried out an airstrike on the Qatari capital of Doha on Tuesday in an effort to kill the Hamas negotiators with whom it is carrying out ceasefire talks. While the Hamas negotiators survived, the attack killed six people, including the son of Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas's chief negotiator, as well as civilians. The DSA-backed front-runner for mayor of New York shared the stage with Bernie Sanders at a Fighting Oligarchy tour event in Brooklyn over the weekend. Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book," filled with grotesque and fawning tributes to the late pedophile and trafficker of women, exposes the real social physiognomy of the US ruling class. The central task of this lecture is to examine the catastrophic victory of fascism in Germany in 1933, the role of the Stalinist Comintern and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in enabling Hitler's seizure of power, and how these events compelled Leon Trotsky to draw the conclusion that it was necessary to build a new, Fourth International. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has entered a new phase of its judicial operation targeting fundamental democratic rights and the Kemalist Republican People's Party (CHP), which emerged as the leading party in the March 2024 local elections. The pro-military and pro-monarchy Bhumjaithai Party have only been able to form government with the backing of the so-called progressive People's Party, which has pledged to block no-confidence motions and support the budget. The process by which the film became a TIFF marquee event underscores the central role financial and imperialist foreign policy interests play in the country's major cultural institutions. In the period since the global financial crisis of 2008, governments have been piling up debt at an accelerating rate—particularly with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic—they provided bailouts to corporations and major tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy. Twenty-two-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus, Taher Mohammed Taher Hasan, has been detained by the Trump administration in an ICE dungeon for nearly two years in violation of his basic rights. Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has become a spearhead of moves to shift the Coalition into a more Trump-like formation, triggering public conflicts. The week-long rolling strike by more than 11,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport union members on the Tube and Docklands Light Railway began on Friday. The DLR was shut down entirely today, with trains idled in the sheds. 1,400 service workers across the University of Minnesota system began a strike after rejecting the University's "last, best and final" offer. Last week's tragedy in Uva province highlights the country's ongoing road safety crisis and the government's failure to implement promised infrastructure and safety reforms. Ongoing demonstrations and protests in many cities against the right-wing Serbian government headed by President Aleksandar Vučić are being met with increasing police brutality. It has now been more than four weeks since the explosion at US Steel's Clairton Coke Works that killed steelworkers Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee and injured 10 others, yet the United Steelworkers union has remained almost completely silent. MP Tākuta Ferris's social media post attacking Asians, Indians, black people and white people is further evidence of the utterly reactionary character of Te Pāti Māori and of Māori nationalist identity politics. Educators across Michigan are starting school without contracts, as the state's schools reel from Trump's cuts following decades of bipartisan underfunding. Prison and leg-irons: Refugees will be treated like criminals in Greece in future. This is the essence of the tougher asylum law introduced by the Greek government a week ago. Royal Mail workers discuss opposing CWU's rotten pay award and agreements with billionaire Kretinsky World Socialist Web Site writer Tony Robson started by refuting CWU General Secretary Dave Ward and Deputy General Secretary Martin Walsh's claim of an "overwhelming endorsement." The 79.5 to 20.5 percent acceptance was in fact based on a historic low turnout: 57 percent of CWU members did not return a vote and only one in three voted in favour. 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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