Will Lehman’s nomination for UAW president: A milestone in the fight for rank-and-file power

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Will Lehman’s nomination for UAW president: A milestone in the fight for rank-and-file power Workers backed his campaign because it expressed their own experiences with the UAW apparatus: sellout contracts, suppression of opposition, the defense of corporate profit and the subordination of workers’ struggles to the Democratic Party and the state. Read more Free Ercan Akpolat, the Turkish mayor of the historic Prinkipo island where Trotsky lived! Stop the political witch hunt by the Erdoğan regime! Ercan Akpolat, the mayor of Büyükada—where Trotsky spent his years in exile in Turkey—has been taken into custody. Read more US-Iran deal on the verge of breakdown 48 hours after being signed The first round of nuclear talks, scheduled to open in Switzerland, was scrapped before it began after Iran refused to send its negotiator in response to a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon. Read more EU summit accelerates war course: Arms build-up, trade war, social cuts and anti-refugee measures The EU summit held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday was in every respect a war summit. Behind the official formulations about “security,” “competitiveness,” “resilience” and “migration” lies a comprehensive program of rearmament, war escalation, social cuts and attacks on democratic rights. Read more Preventive arrests targeting anti-war activists ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara The Erdoğan government is preparing for the Ankara summit by stepping up repressions against anti-NATO and anti-war opposition groups at home. Read more Haitian asylum seeker Daphy Michel’s death ruled a homicide after ICE release in Pittsburgh Michel’s death, apparently caused by exposure to freezing temperatures after her release from ICE custody, is another indictment of the US immigration system. Read more Democrats back Trump’s frame-up of anti-genocide protesters at the University of Michigan State and national Democratic Party officials have either endorsed the witch-hunt or remained silent. Read more Mamdani promotes DSA candidates in New York Democratic primary election Mamdani’s hypocrisy and opportunism are in the service of what? The promotion of the fiction that the Democratic Party—a party of the same corporate-financial oligarchy that controls the Republicans--can be reformed, as can the capitalist system. Read more Burnham wins Makerfield by-election, clearing path for Labour leadership challenge Burnham’s remaining rhetoric will be discarded the instant he crosses the threshold of Downing Street. Read more German court tramples on freedom of conscience to protect military advertising A Munich Labour Court has rated the “business freedom” of local transit operator MVG higher than the freedom of conscience of a driver who refused to drive a tram covered in advertising for Germany’s armed forces. Read more SOAS student faces week-long trial at the Old Bailey: Drop the terrorism charges against Sarah Cotte! Ahead of her trial, Sarah spoke with the World Socialist Web Site, outlining the significance of her case. She explained, “There’s potentially really large and quite dangerous consequences if I get a guilty verdict.” Read more Australia: Victorian educators reject AEU-Labor sellout—Build rank-and-file committees to take the struggle forward! The overwhelming no vote was registered despite anti-democratic mechanisms the AEU deployed in an attempt to ram the deal through. Read more Australian government backpaddles on cosmetic tax changes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers fronted a media conference on Thursday to outline backflips on Labor’s minimal capital gains tax tweaks. Read more Actor and author Hannah Diviney denounces Australian Labor government’s attacks on the disabled “If you remove a disabled person’s ability to participate in society, then inevitably many will question whether they have value, whether they belong, and whether there is a place for them in the wider community.” Read more Australia: Protester arrested in Sydney as Labor government starts demolition of public housing The police attack demonstrates the Labor government’s determination to proceed with its plan to tear down around 150 homes by the end of June, as the first phase of demolishing all 750 homes in the Waterloo South estate over the next six to nine months. Read more David Hockney and the art of seeing in an age of upheaval David Hockney’s death at 88 closes one of the most remarkable careers in modern art. His legacy is to remind us that careful looking is the beginning of understanding—but not its end. Read more Ebola rages through the Congo At four weeks, the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda is three times larger than any previous epidemic at the same stage, with 894 cases and over 200 dead. Read more Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific India: Flipkart warehouse workers strike in Haryana; Chennai urban health centre workers protest outstanding wages; Australia: Thousands of striking public hospital allied health professionals march for higher pay; Melbourne metropolitan council workers walk out again. 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