 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Governments and corporations are abandoning their climate pledges while hundreds of millions of people suffer through record-breaking heat waves. Israel intensified its displacement, ethnic cleansing and mass murder in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, on Friday, killing 25 people in a strike on a refugee camp north of the city. The Supreme Court ruled that a US citizen does not have a constitutional right to challenge the State Department summary denial of a visa for her husband, one of several cases decided over the last two days as the current term approaches its end, with more than a dozen major decisions, including Trump's broad immunity claim, remaining. The anniversary of the death of Dallas letter carrier Eugene Gates is all the more relevant given the heat wave which is currently affecting much of the United States and the world. "We have to fight the capitalist ruling class which is waging the war against the Palestinians, and now they're trying to attack Iran and Russia." Campaign finance reports for May filed June 20 with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) document the domination of the US presidential election, both candidates, their parties and the entire political system by rival factions of billionaire oligarchs. In a fawning podcast, aimed at propping up the Democratic Party, Biden's election and the trade union apparatus, Sanders praised Fain for all of his "success" while Fain hailed Biden's "lifetime" of "serving people, serving others." Under conditions in which the imperialist powers are once again plunging the world into the abyss, organising genocide in the Middle East and escalating the NATO war against Russia, the Left Party stands "united on the side of imperialism." Wednesday's police raid and arrest of eleven pro-independence activists in Nouméa has the hallmark of a provocation by the French state. If Canada Post's sweeping concession demands are to be successfully resisted, power must be placed back in workers' hands through the establishment of a network of rank-and-file committees. While the Wickremesinghe government has made clear that there will be no salary increase, the University Trade Union Joint Committee (UTUJC) leadership is backing away from its original demands. The complicated process to choose a new parliamentary upper house is designed to entrench the interests of traditional layers of the Thai ruling elite. Gary Johnson poses as a hired killer, using various disguises and personae, and helps prosecute dozens of people who seek out his services over the course of a number of years. As of Thursday, severe thunderstorms in the area are preventing effective containment by fire crews, and threaten even more damage due to flash floods. India: Punjab social health workers protest over long outstanding demands; Pakistan: Hospital nurses and doctors in Toba Tek Singh protest colleague's arrest; Bangladeshi chemical workers in Gazipur strike over unpaid wages; Australia: Endeavour Energy power distribution workers in New South Wales strike 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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