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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme, which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hit $120,000. The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement. Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights. The former governor made his pitch to Wall Street, attacking Zohran Mamdani's "unrealistic proposals and divisive agenda." A series of intense storms struck the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area on Monday, triggering flash flooding that caused the death of two women when their vehicle was swept up by ferocious waters in Plainfield, New Jersey. At the same time as it slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from school budgets, the CAQ government has moved to gut education workers' right to strike. Cousins was widely recognized for his emotionally dynamic and expressive voice. He could shift from fragile vulnerability to commanding or angry theatricality within a single phrase. Sanders "cited Finland as an example the UK should consider," the Telegraph reports, telling the paper, "Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air attacks from Russia. We don't have that." Unite forced to suspend Angela Rayner's membership by rising opposition to Starmer Labour government The leader of the UK's second largest union has gone on record to state that, despite her best efforts, justifying partnership with this right-wing party of big business has become politically hazardous in the face of the mass hostility in the working class. Students unfurled flags and banners, with slogans including, "Fund teaching not genocide" and "No graduates in Gaza", before walking out of the graduation halls, to cheering and clapping. Boric used his final Public Account address last month to justify the record of Apruebo Dignidad, which has gone further to the right than any government since the return to civilian rule. Peruvian peasant miners strike, blockade roads; Hospital workers rally across Latin Ameica; California garbage haulers join growing national strike against Republic Services; Rio Tinto steelworkers begin strike in Quebec. The budget would impose sweeping cuts to social programs to free up tens of billions of euros for the ongoing military build-up and NATO war plans against Russia. The sell-out of the Cádiz strike shows the need for workers to build rank-and-file committees and take their struggles out of the hands of corrupt union bureaucracies linked to Spain's ruling social-democratic and pseudo-left parties. In the fourth 24-hour strike since May, drivers protested against declining real wages and attacks on their rosters and other working conditions. Rank-and-file committees have called a national public meeting on August 2, to take forward the fight against the Labor government-led onslaught on university jobs and conditions. While the mass killings at aid sites and refugee camps continue, former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is calling the US-Israeli "humanitarian city" near the Egyptian border, where as many as 2 million Palestinians will be relocated, a concentration camp. 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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