 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The Republican National Convention concluded Thursday night with a speech by the party's candidate, ex-president Donald Trump, which was an unequaled display of political degradation. The signatures are an expression of the broad sentiment among workers and youth for a socialist, anti-war and anti-capitalist alternative to the capitalist parties. Announced with great fanfare by President Joseph Biden in March, the pier ended up taking two months to deliver 80 percent of the 500 truckloads of aid that arrived in Gaza each day prior to the launching of Israel's genocidal onslaught on October 7. The brutal police actions are part of the intensified persecution of opponents of the war by the German state. Tuesday's "total shutdown" protest saw three people shot dead and dozens injured. This adds to the 50 dead and 413 injured as they were shot, teargassed and water cannoned since the start of protests on June 18, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. The last court filing lends further weight to the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for new UAW elections under the control of the rank and file. While the contract was set to expire July 31, IATSE officials did not even bother to organize a strike authorization vote. The union has never held a national strike in its history. The escalation of war against Russia was coupled together with the extension of "Fortress Europe" and the war against asylum seekers and refugees. Two new studies on Long COVID show that the virus that causes COVID-19 poses significant ongoing threats to the well-being of the world's population. Beholden to the profit interests of the poultry and dairy industries, federal and state agencies with the authority and technology to contain H5N1 and prevent it from becoming the next pandemic are not doing what is both within their means and required. The newly formed "Left, Independent, Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Patriarchal Bloc" has joined the wave of triumphalism following the victory of Claudia Sheinbaum, the hand-picked successor of incumbent President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Gavin had argued that his attorneys were ineffective during his trial and that the prosecution lacked forensic or DNA evidence against him. Defense counsel failed to present mitigating evidence that might have led jurors to vote for a life sentence without the possibility of parole instead of a death sentence. Unsubstantiated allegations are being used to impose major attacks on the democratic rights of construction workers, in preparation for cuts to pay and conditions. IYSSE members spoke to workers at the plant about the necessity to build an international movement of the working class and youth to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the danger of nuclear war. "We need to stand with Bogdan now, because it's easy to imagine the alternative: if Ukraine is able to imprison socialists and ban the WSWS without protest, what's to stop the UK, Germany or the US, from doing the same?" general strike in most cities in West Bank after weekend slaughter of Gazan Palestinians in so-called designated safe area of al-Mawasi and in a refugee camp west of Khan Younis by IDF; aviation workers at South African airports on indefinite strike over pay structure affecting baggage handling and ground services 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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