 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees. While the Democratic president was visibly doddering, the Republican ex-president engaged in non-stop lying and fascistic demonizing of immigrants. The ending of the second shift, scheduled for July 1, comes as the Stellantis boss has launched a "cost-cutting" race in the EV transition Executions this week in Texas expose the arbitrary character of the death penalty and the abusive life experiences of those who find themselves on death row, while Missouri sets an execution date for an innocent man. Wednesday's police assault makes clear that Sri Lankan workers need to prepare for a political general strike, based on a revolutionary socialist program, against the government's International Monetary Fund austerity measures. The US State Department hailed "President Ruto's commitment to Kenyans' constitutionally-endowed rights," while European Union Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell hailed a "reduction of the tensions… conducive to dialogue." This is a seal of approval for the massacre Ruto committed the day before. The abortive coup marks a new stage in the turmoil gripping Bolivia ahead of the 2025 elections, where the major drivers are the escalating third world war and deepening crisis of global capitalism. Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators' independent interests. Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel's genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee recently held its founding meeting. Organized independently of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) bureaucracy, the PWRFC aims to mobilize postal workers in a political struggle against the corporatist alliance between management, the union apparatus and the government. "The clarity of analysis from Bogdan is a direct threat to fascistic regimes and hence he has been fraudulently charged and put in prison"– Albert from Victoria The main obstacle to mobilizing workers against war and neo-fascism independently of the New Popular Front's pro-imperialist program are organizations like the IMT, which are petty-bourgeois descendants of renegades from Trotskyism. The union and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson hope to avoid the possibility of over 25,000 Chicago teachers on strike during the convention. While thousands of people rallied outside parliament, Labour MP Phil Twyford falsely claimed that his party had been calling for a ceasefire for the last eight months. The latest Consumer Price Index figures make a mockery of the Albanese government's pretence that real wages are finally rising after years of falling, let alone Labor's 2022 election pledge of "a better future." According to IATSE, talks were stalled mainly due to disagreements over wages and artificial Intelligence. Workers have every right to be intensely suspicious of this process and its results. In Italy, agricultural workers in Latina province walk out after workplace death, while metal workers strike in South Tyrol after explosion leaves one fatality, others injured; 20,000 oil contract workers in national walkout over pay and conditions in Iran join mass protests of retirees over falling living standards; health workers in Oyo State to hold seven-day warning strike July 1 over pay and collapsing healthcare system 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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