 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Trump used the backdrop of the major artistic space in the US capital to deliver a meandering account of his military assault on Iran, combining blood-curdling threats with utter indifference to the colossal human cost of this criminal war. The strike at Greeley is all the more significant because the overwhelming majority of the workforce are immigrants, who have launched the strike in defiance of the broader rampage by immigration authorities. News media reports have confirmed that Israel has started its long-planned ground invasion of southern Lebanon with plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River which is roughly the southern third of Lebanon. The Palestinian detainee had been raped so violently that he had to be transferred to a hospital for treatment for severe injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs that left him unable to walk. That One Battle After Another won six Academy Awards is probably the most telling indicator of changes taking place in the artistic world, a complex reflection of important shifts in popular consciousness more broadly. The portrait of a ruling class marked by an absolute contempt for collective interests, culture, and human life is the strongest and most universal aspect of Mendonça's film. Mehmet Türkmen, general secretary of the independent rank-and-file textile union in Türkiye, was arrested on Monday due to his speech to protesting workers. Yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League who was assassinated in 1977. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997. The bitterness expressed by workers is rooted in the outcome of the 2008 American Axle strike, which lasted 87 days and ended in a devastating concessions agreement imposed by the UAW, with wages slashed to as low as $10 an hour. The meeting stressed that the methods tested in the genocide in Gaza are now being applied to Iran. Weimer's censorship measures involve removing three left-wing bookshops from a list of 118 shops compiled by an independent expert jury for the German Bookshop Award. The move has triggered a massive wave of protest and criticism. Capitalist recovery rests on intensified exploitation and a growing reserve army of under- and unemployed workers. Nominal wage increases are trumpeted as progress, yet real wages lag far behind the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food. The central lesson of People Power is not that the masses "once saved democracy" and must now do so again, but that no advance is possible so long as their struggles remain chained to any faction of the bourgeoisie. In major concession to Trump, Cuban government opens island to investment by Miami exile capitalists Cuba's government is courting large-scale investments from US corporations and the exile bourgeoisie in Miami, a decisive step toward turning Cuba into a semi‑protectorate of US imperialism. The 900 terminated workers at the FATE tire plant are demanding their jobs back while 2,300 workers at Portland Community College in Oregon have struck to demand cost-of-living raises. An overwhelming vote to strike is a further sign of widespread opposition to the sweeping pro-business and pro-military restructuring of universities being driven by the Albanese Labor government. A ballot of Australian Education Union members recorded an unprecedented 98 percent vote for stopwork action, expressing widespread anger over appalling wages and conditions in public schools. Workers were given less than 48 hours to decide whether to immediately accept redundancy or take six weeks' unpaid leave in the hope that the mine is quickly sold. 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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