 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The courageous rebellion by Dakkota workers urgently requires action be taken in their support by autoworkers and rank-and-file UAW members everywhere. Israel launched its largest attack on southern Lebanon since 2006 on Sunday, involving over 100 air force jets. The Israel Defence Forces claimed that the attacks involved over 40 targets. A WSWS reporting team campaigned Friday at the Vauxhall auto plant in Luton to raise with workers the threat of job losses being carried out in the US and internationally by parent group Stellantis. The fake socialist from Vermont has seamlessly transitioned from supporting Biden to his partner-in-crime, Harris. Go ahead for interest rate cuts to begin at Fed's September meeting. The government will not be involved as a "neutral arbiter" but as the political agent of corporate America. Its top aim will be to help break the strike and ram through a deal favorable the company. The postal executive has deemed it acceptable to open a ballot without even providing members a copy of the policies they are voting on! While the attack was politically reactionary, the denunciations of the attack by French politicians who back the Israeli genocide in Gaza are utterly hypocritical and false. As millions of students are re-entering their classrooms in schools and on college campuses across the United States for a new semester, the threat of world war and fascism is greater today than at any point since the 1930s. Workers at New York City's Noguchi Museum walked out in protest against regulations that prohibit them from showing opposition to the Gaza genocide. UPS has confirmed that 37-year-old Luis Grimaldo, a Bell County delivery driver, died August 6 of what his coworkers are saying was a heat-related illness while working his route. The sudden action, less than 24 hours after new legislation to enable it was officially proclaimed, underscores that the Labor government views the crippling of the major industrial union as a matter of the utmost urgency. Although the NT is Australia's smallest jurisdiction in population—about a quarter of a million people—the collapse in Labor's vote is not a local aberration. The mass uprisings in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024 were driven by the same crisis of global capitalism affecting every country. Drawing the necessary political lessons is essential for the working class in preparation for the revolutionary struggles ahead. This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago. The Greens are a capitalist party that offers no alternative for workers and young people seeking to oppose war abroad and austerity at home. The FDA approved the latest COVID vaccine boosters on the tail end of the Democratic National Convention that can best be characterized as a superspreader event. Meanwhile, more than 1.3 million people are being infected daily with COVID. Steelworkers at Thyssenkrup must break the control of the corrupt trade union apparatus and its mafia-like company structures and take the defence of jobs into their own hands. A week of developments in the case of death row prisoner Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams has exposed the brutality and arbitrary character of the state killing machine in America. An execution date looms for a man who by all accounts is innocent. The election campaign is dominated by incitement against refugees, war propaganda and the demand for a police state. If these gigantic ice shelves disintegrated, they would raise the global sea level by 58 meters, nearly 200 feet. 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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