After week of escalation, Trump threatens ground invasion of Iran

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. After week of escalation, Trump threatens ground invasion of Iran The fascist president has stated at least 38 times since March, by CNN’s count, that a deal with Iran is imminent. Read more UAW bureaucracy announces deal in bid to end American Axle strike The United Auto Workers bureaucracy is rushing to end the 10-day strike to prevent American Axle workers from linking up with Nexteer, Dana and other parts workers fighting decades of UAW backed wage cuts. Read more Nexteer worker fired for opposing UAW sellout The firing of Antwiane Sanders exposes the bureaucracy’s real function: policing workers on behalf of the corporations by suppressing opposition and enforcing labor discipline. Read more Attend UK public meetings: Your Party’s collapse—Time to build the Socialist Equality Party The Socialist Equality Party’s message to workers and students is that it is time to break out of the cycle of betrayals. Our public meetings will discuss the building of a genuine socialist and internationalist party of the working class. Read more Far-right violence against migrants continues in Belfast Fascist mobs used hit lists that were known to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, to target migrant homes, confirming that the PSNI allowed a pogrom to be mounted. Read more One million young people in UK not in education, employment or training Six in 10 NEETs (not in education, employment or training) have never had a job—up from four in 10 in 2005 Read more Merz’s government statement: War abroad, social counterrevolution at home World power politics, attacks on social rights and military rearmament are Merz’s priorities ahead of the European Council meeting in Brussels in mid-June. Read more NATO’s war summit to convene in Ankara in July The NATO gathering in Ankara will be a historic war summit. It will be driven by escalating imperialist war abroad and the suppression of the social and democratic rights of the working class at home. Read more Australian pseudo-left tries to head off rebellion against Labor-union sellout of Victorian teachers The pseudo-left are trying to keep teachers within the union straitjacket as it works with the Labor government to impose a sellout deal. Read more Educators in US and UK support fight against Australian Education Union sellout Teachers in the United States and Britain have sent messages of solidarity to teachers and Education Support staff in Victoria fighting a sellout union-Labor deal. Read more What the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Inquiry uncovered about Palmetto RPDC, where 4 workers have died in 2 years In November 2025, the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee launched an independent inquiry into the deaths at the post office because management, federal regulators and the union bureaucracy had failed to protect workers. Read more “Work or starve”: Trump’s SNAP cuts drive millions from food stamp rolls Veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, parents whose youngest child is 14 or older, and people who were in foster care at age 18 are among the groups stripped of previously held exemptions from providing documentation of work to receive SNAP benefits. Read more Canada Post workers vote reluctantly for concessions-filled contracts as government-backed jobs massacre continues After over two years of the CUPW leadership isolating postal workers, conniving behind the scenes with management and the government, and blocking any attempt to broaden the fight to other sections of workers confronting the same attacks, the prevailing mood among workers was that they had no option but to accept Read more Students across Chile protest criminalization of youth and education cuts Several generations of Chilean students have passed through an educational system systematically stripped of resources, handed to profiteers and disrupted by closures and regulatory failures. Read more One-day nationwide strike in Portugal opposes right-wing labour reform The June 3 strike was the second nationwide strike against Trabalho XXI in six months, after the December 11, 2025 strike--the first in 12 years--which paralysed the country. Read more US Army Special Operations Forces conduct urban warfare exercises across Los Angeles region The same military apparatus bombing Iran and funding genocide in Gaza now conducts combat exercises over working-class Los Angeles neighborhoods. Read more New Zealand’s pseudo-left ISO calls for “anti-war” alliance with pro-imperialist Labour and Green parties The group’s call to support the bourgeois opposition parties is aimed at trapping workers and youth who are moving to the left and blocking the development of a socialist anti-war movement. Read more Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa One in two workers at France’s national railways walk out over pay and conditions; further protests across Iran’s cities by high school students, academics, sacked steel workers and medical students as living standards plummet due to US sanctions and savage bombardment; miners at strategic copper mine in the Congo strike over poverty pay and conditions Read more 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. We’re powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. Copyright © 2024, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.