 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Merz's response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler's programmatic speeches in the early 1930s. Reporters from the WSWS will be intervening on the ground in Minneapolis and around the country as tens of thousands call for a general strike to abolish the immigration gestapo and bring down the Trump government. The arrests of these protesters and journalists mark a massive escalation in the Trump administration's criminalization of dissent and assault on core democratic rights. ICE arrests in Michigan were up 230 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, and included immigrants with legal status and those with spouses or children who are US citizens. After years of denial by Israel, successive US and European governments and the international media, Israel has accepted the Gaza Health Ministry's official death toll. Paine's revolutionary assault on monarchy and aristocracy cleared the way for American independence a quarter millenium ago—and speaks urgently to the present. Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire political and economic framework that subordinates human life to profit, repression and state violence. While Thyssenkrupp shareholders plan to approve a €93 million dividend, the corporation is preparing to slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division. Workers must reject the complicity of the IG Metall union and build independent rank-and-file committees to defend their livelihoods against these attacks. Independent rap artist Sole spoke to the WSWS about the issues confronting hip-hop artists in the present situation, as well as his opposition to the Trump administration's assault on the population. The most overt expression of Mamdani's prostration before and political integration into the capitalist establishment is his ongoing relationship with Donald Trump. A national command structure and a high-tech surveillance infrastructure is being constructed to confront the inevitable eruption of social opposition. Autoworkers should demand that the UAW sanction participation in a general strike. Putting money—drawn from workers' dues money—where its mouth is, the union's $800 million strike fund must be put to use for the struggle against dictatorship, not for lining pockets. A Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker was critically injured when a vehicle fell on him due to known safety hazards, which both management and the UAW apparatus ignored. None of the major parties expects to secure a majority with polling showing a sharp collapse in support for Pheu Thai and the People's Party since 2023. Health Workers Union bureaucrats denounced the SEP as "scabs" who were "spreading division in the union." "It appears that the government no longer wants to supply and manage public housing." — Simon Robinson, OFFICE architect. The Trump administration has imposed a de facto blockade on oil shipments to Cuba as part of a drive for regime change. This inferno is tearing through a region that only days earlier had been hit by destructive flash flooding, underscoring the "whiplash" character of climate-driven extremes now confronting Victoria. The selective "highlights" released by the union bureaucracy make clear that the agreements constitute an historic betrayal, paving the way for mass job destruction, intensified exploitation and the transformation of Canada Post into a precarious, Amazon-style logistics operation. India: 800,000 government bank workers strike nationwide; West Bengal: Kilcott Tea estate workers protest overdue wages; Sri Lanka: School Development Officers renew calls for inclusion in National Teacher Service; Qantas salaried and technical workers strike again for new agreement 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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