 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The horrific collapse of American sprinter Noah Lyles at the Paris Olympics due to his infection with COVID-19 is a graphic exposure of the reality that the pandemic is ongoing and remains dangerous for the entire population. US and European news outlets have hailed what The Economist dubbed "The second battle of Kursk," referencing the World War II battle in which Soviet forces, then allied with the United States, France, and England, decisively defeated the armies of Nazi Germany. The killing of yet another senior Hamas official makes a mockery of the far-right Netanyahu government's claim to be interested in negotiating a ceasefire with Hamas, not to mention the posturing by its imperialist backers in favour of a ceasefire. The cuts continue the relentless downsizing and cost-cutting by automakers in the aftermath of the 2023 UAW sellout contracts at the Big Three. The job cuts were long expected. The workers are being made to pay for the ongoing sharp crisis in Hollywood and the profit drive of Wall Street and other financial sharks. As the Liberal government, backed by the trade unions and New Democrats, spend tens of billions on waging war around the world and enriching their corporate paymasters, growing numbers of people are forced to resort to permanently living in tents with virtually none of the amenities necessary for modern living. In California alone, a state with a gross domestic product of $3.23 trillion, more than 181,000 people experience homelessness daily, as reported by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. A new review of Long COVID by renowned researchers places the estimate of people with Long COVID at 409 million during the first four years of the COVID pandemic. Legislators in the Republican-led Nassau County government banned the use of medical masks in public in on Monday. Harris' refusal to engage with the protesters confirms that war abroad and suppression of democratic rights domestically is not just the individual policy choice of "Genocide Joe," but the shared class policy of both capitalist parties. The Delmar, New York, home of former US Marine Corp intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was raided by the FBI on Wednesday in connection with an investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. Only our party speaks the truth and explains to workers, the poor and young people the serious situation they confront and the necessity of fighting for a revolutionary socialist alternative. Even in the establishment press, the question is being raised of whether Labor has formally committed to participate in any US-led war with China. As the right-wing coalition government signals it will join the AUKUS, the Labour Party is feigning opposition in an effort to prevent the eruption of anti-war opposition in the working class. The union's response to the announcement has been nothing short of pathetic, confirming once again its role as a parasite on workers. Its response has been to do nothing—no pickets, no demonstrations, no rallies—to stop the closures. The Department of Public Works, local Democratic officials and the Democratic-party aligned unions have gone into damage control to blunt rising popular anger over this preventable death. The US Supreme Court rejected Texas inmate Arthur Lee Burton's request for a stay based on his intellectual disability. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole rejected Taberon Dave Honie's petition for commutation of his death sentence on the basis of intergenerational trauma in his childhood. Public preschool educators protest in Taiwan; India: 14,000 National Health Mission contract nurses strike in Haryana; South Australian submarine maintenance workers escalate action; New Zealand: 10,000 supermarket workers demand higher pay The IG Metall union has no thought of mobilising its 1.5 million members in the factories and plants to oppose the impending jobs massacre. Everywhere the union and its works council representatives work to implement the cuts and closures. Saied's aim is to consolidate his one-man dictatorship and impose the full burden of Tunisia's deep-rooted economic problems on the working class on behalf of the country's corrupt financial elite. Musk's role in stoking far-right violence confirms Marx's description of the financial aristocracy as "the rebirth of the lumpenproletariat on the heights of bourgeois society". 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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