 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The United States has reached a point where the scale of political breakdown and the ferocity of class tensions are generating profound shifts in consciousness. Washington's preparations for a military onslaught on Iran have nothing to do with alleged concern for the democratic rights of its 93-million-strong population. With 15,000 nurses on strike in New York City and a general strike in Minneapolis set for next Friday, the conditions are rapidly emerging in the United States for a mass movement in the working class against inequality and dictatorship, with healthcare workers at the forefront. The WSWS spoke with nurses on the picket line and at a nearby hospital about the conditions they are struggling against and the calls for a general strike in Minneapolis and beyond Major financial irregularities at UAW Local 862 in Louisville take place as rank-and-file anger continues to simmer over deteriorating conditions, inckuding safety issues and management harassment. Despite the pattern of repeated failures in a component that secures a multi-ton engine to the wing, Boeing ignored the danger. While those politically responsible largely ignored the plight of the population, within hours they began to politically exploit the attack on the power grid. The act of sabotage is being ruthlessly used to advance the expansion of a police state and domestic militarisation. Last year local authorities were told by the Labour government to cut 2 to 3 percent from their adult skills funding, after years of real-terms cuts. The response at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre shows that postal workers are searching for a way forward based on international solidarity and political clarity. Workers cannot stop imperialism's accelerating plunge into military dictatorship and wars of plunder without breaking politically with forces like Mélenchon, who calls for them to subordinate themselves to the Venezuelan bourgeois nationalist regime's negotiations with Trump. WSWS reporters interviewed students in the Paris area on Trump's military operation against Venezuela to kidnap its president and try to seize its oil revenues. Israel—and the UAE's—efforts to secure recognition for Somaliland highlight and enflame the enormous geopolitical tensions in the Horn of Africa, a region that is already contending with multiple crises amid drought and famine. Ten federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted to life by Biden have been moved to ADX Florence in Colorado, where inmates are kept in concrete cells smaller than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day and are subject to near-total social and sensory deprivation. This is a repeat of the bureaucrats' action last September, when they blocked a strike by calling on Trump to appoint a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), whose findings were rejected by management. The case of Zalando highlights the importance of workers taking the defense of jobs into their own hands by setting up rank-and-file committees, joining forces with other workers to organize joint industrial action. The record surplus, up from $993 billion in 2024, was achieved despite a 20 percent fall in exports to the US, which was more than compensated for by the increase in exports to the rest of the world. The Albanese government remains intent on ramming anti-democratic laws through parliament, under the cover of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. Like the bushfires, Victoria's Great Ocean Road floods expose the criminal indifference of the state Labor government to the mounting toll of climate catastrophe on the working class. South Korea: Seoul city bus union ends strike with inferior pay deal; India: Tamil Nadu malaria prevention workers protest in Chennai; Pakistan: Power sector workers protest IMF-driven privatisation; Australia: 5,000 Victorian public sector health workers escalate industrial action 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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