The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings”

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War Against Monarchy to “No Kings” These remarks open the WSWS webinar by situating the American Revolution as a world-historical bourgeois democratic revolution, tracing its development through the Civil War and examining the present-day assault on its democratic legacy. Read more Thousands feared dead in Venezuela after strongest earthquake in 125 years The scale and deadliness of the catastrophe have been shaped not by the seismic waves alone, but by decades of imperialist sanctions, military aggression, corrupt capitalist rule under Chavismo and now the open US recolonization of the country. Read more SGP and WSWS call for the release of Ercan Akpolat and all political prisoners in Türkiye On June 24, SGP Chairman Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language World Socialist Web Site, read out an open letter to Ambassador Gökhan Turan in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin. Read more “Round up all the new hires and tell them to vote yes”: UAW holds shotgun vote at Nexteer as opposition mounts to fourth sellout deal There is widespread opposition to the deal and deep anger over the way the UAW bureaucracy has defied the will of the membership. Read more Detroit Federation of Teachers pushes through contract, as school closures, austerity continue The basic contradiction behind the tentative agreement is that district is offering limited raises while closing schools. Read more Alan Greenspan (1926–2026) and the crisis of capitalism More than any other single individual, Greenspan worked to create an economic system based on speculation, parasitism, and unprecedented social inequality which characterises US and world capitalism today. Read more UK Labour “left” prostrate before Burnham as he assembles cabinet for austerity and war If any single image captured the Labour “left” as the cowardly wretches they are, it was McDonnell welling up while appearing in LBC Radio’s studio as he watched Burnham’s election victory speech. Read more German government launches frontal assault on pensions The pension reforms seamlessly follow the abolition of Bürgergeld (welfare benefits) and the so-called “health reforms.” Billions are being redistributed from the pockets of the needy, the sick, pensioners, the low-paid and workers into rearmament into the accounts of the super-rich. Read more Trump administration requests approval of $87.6 billion for Iran war The White House padded its request for $87.6 billion—down from the previously discussed $200 billion—with items aimed at getting the votes needed in both chambers of Congress to pass the military appropriations. Read more Senate hearing on US Postal Service lays out proposals for delivery cuts, post office closures Under the guise of “reforming” USPS’s supposedly “broken business model,” senators and postal management discussed cutting delivery days, closing post offices, outsourcing work, raising prices, attacking workers’ compensation and eliminating regulatory restraints on management. Read more Kenya’s President William Ruto locks down Nairobi to prevent Gen-Z protests Workers and youth confront the capitalist state, its police and military apparatus, the courts, the trade union bureaucracy, the bourgeois opposition parties and the financial aristocracy. Read more Extreme heat has devastating effects on agriculture and workers Anthropogenic global warming amplified this year by a record-breaking “Godzilla” Super El Nino, will have a catastrophic impact on food production and the working class. Read more Chile’s “missing” Haitian children: Kast manufactures a scandal to vilify migrants The entire affair must be understood within the trajectory of Kast's criminalization of immigrants as entry-point to a broader social counterrevolution. Read more COB betrayal paves way for “state of exception” in Bolivia: strategic lessons of the workers’ uprising The task facing the Bolivian working class was and remains to break from the bureaucratic agencies of the bourgeois state and establishi its political independence. Read more Australian ruling elite fawns over alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith Despite being charged with five war crimes, including murder, Roberts-Smith is being treated as a respected public figure by the powers that be. Read more Call for inquiry into dropping of charges over New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster Christopher Harder, a former criminal lawyer, has called for police to investigate the unlawful deal to drop charges against the company’s chief executive Peter Whittall. Read more Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa Transport including rail, metro and buses brought to a halt in four-hour national strike in the Netherlands over austerity attacks on pensions and welfare; legal aid workers strike and protest in South Africa as the right to legal aid is threatened by cuts 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. 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