 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Ahead of next month's NATO summit in Washington, US and NATO officials are making it clear they are preparing to abandon all existing limits on the deployment of nuclear weapons. There has been a global surge of infectious diseases attributable to the anti-public health policies that have placed profits over lives. Events are rapidly confirming that the New Popular Front alliance led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the French snap elections is a political trap for workers. Fourteen months ago, Sumar was presented with great fanfare as the new "left" party of government to replace Podemos, but it implemented the same policies of war, austerity and attacks on immigrants. Heat related deaths in the US average 1,200 every year and extreme temperature events, fueled by climate change, increase the risks to human health and lives. A shooter walked up to a splash pad in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and opened fire randomly at adults and children who were gathered at a public park splash pad. Nine were injured, two of them critically, and the shooter later killed himself at his home. Thousands of Hollywood figures and Democratic Party operatives gathered in downtown Los Angeles to raise money for the incumbent president, saying not a word about the danger of war and genocide. The dismantling of the encampments is a warning of a broader drive to shut down opposition to the genocide and to imperialist war. The appointment of Zaluzhny as ambassador to the United Kingdom in March confirms the SEP's insistence that a major escalation of NATO's proxy war against Russia is being prepared. Washington is focused on formalizing military cooperation between Japan and South Korea as it continually stokes conflict with China. Ramaphosa's embrace of the Democratic Alliance—until now the official opposition party—and other right-wing parties, at the risk of splintering his faction-ridden ANC, is the logical expression of its pro-capitalist agenda. "We strongly condemn that Bogdan Syrotiuk has been imprisoned in brutal conditions on fraudulent charges of serving the interests of Russia. This false case against Comrade Bogdan must be withdrawn."—Dhanesh, a Renault-Nissan factory worker in Chennai These survey results point to mounting disaffection with the Labor government, the trade union apparatuses that enforce its pro-business agenda, and the entire political order, rather than any shift to the right. The bank has been revealed as providing financial services to and holding shares in major defense firms delivering weapons to Israel. The University of Texas at Austin administration issued a letter to students last week declaring its intention to discipline those who participated in two protests against the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza on its campus on April 24 and 29. This decision comes amidst a frontal assault by the ruling class on the democratic rights of those opposed to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. Protests held in Quito and other cities in Ecuador against plan to end gasoline subsidies while some 3,000 members of the Oregon Nurses Association are set to strike six Providence hospitals. In a newly released letter, UAW Vice President Rich Boyer hit back against his demotion by UAW President Shawn Fain, saying both leaders signed off on job cuts and other concessions demanded by Stellantis. 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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