 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This week, the leaders of the imperialist powers used the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings to pledge a major escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia, threatening to once more plunge humanity into world war. On Monday, June 3, the Ukrainian government banned the World Socialist Web Site across the country, issuing an order commanding all internet service providers to block access to the WSWS indefinitely. A Sri Lankan fisherman said: "We must ensure the safety of Comrade Bogdan. I urge workers, youth and all those who value democratic rights to support the campaign, denounce his arrest and demand his freedom." Hours after Israel perpetrated yet another wanton massacre of men, women and children, the imperialist powers issued a joint statement underscoring that they stand fully behind the far-right Zionist regime's "final solution" to the Palestinian question in Gaza. The authorities refused to alter the route so as to avoid it passing through the Muslim Quarter and prevent the violent clashes with the Old City's Palestinian residents that have taken place in recent years, despite repeated calls to do so. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei is running in the 2024 European elections to build an international movement against war, social inequality, and fascism. Just days before the European elections, leading politicians in Germany are reacting to the knife attack by an Afghan refugee and subsequent death of a police officer with demands for harsher deportation measures. The deliberations of the Export Council are becoming increasingly focused on maintaining the "defense industrial base" and "military readiness." A woman in Los Angeles, saddled with debt, becomes involved in a credit card fraud scheme, with serious consequences. After July 4, the UK faces a government, likely led by Sir Keir Starmer's Labour "party of NATO" tasked with implementing the "Sanders Doctrine", with all its horrifying implications. A new report published by the Commonwealth Fund found that the maternal mortality rate in the US is the highest among high-income nations. "My Palestinian friends have said, 'they've pushed us around like animals.' And what is the world doing? Nothing." Once considered among the safest aircraft to fly, Boeing is now facing an essentially continuous deluge of whistleblowers and leaks. The National Tertiary Education Union has done a deal behind the backs of staff and students at WSU College and across WSU as a whole, where most people do not even know about the pro-business restructuring of the college. Increasingly, Australia's billionaires primarily derive their fortunes from some of the most parasitic activities, either based on extracting minerals and fossil fuels or on property and financial speculation. What students engaging in entirely legitimate protests against the Canadian imperialist-backed onslaught on the Palestinians desperately need is a clear perspective to mobilize the working class, not pleas for university administrations complicit in the genocide to let them say their piece. Representative Andy Kim's comfortable victory over his primary opponents reflects the remarkable and ongoing integration of the US military-intelligence apparatus and the Democratic Party. Dock workers walk out in France against pension reform after government reneges on promise to exempt dockers; Iraqi oil workers at South Refineries Company demanding permanent contracts attacked with rubber bullets and electric batons by security forces; around 200 Women on Farms Project protesting deadly pesticides use in South Africa attacked by police with stun grenades outside parliament CWU officials Dave Ward and Martin Walsh are pursuing a partnership with Kretinsky and his EP Group of asset strippers. Lecturers are determined to oppose compulsory redundancies, onerous teaching workloads, and the introduction of new lower-wage teaching roles. 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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