 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The market selloff underscores the extreme fragility of the financial system amid rampant speculation in high-tech stocks. On the ground in Gaza, criminal attacks by the Israel Defense Forces against civilians continue. Simultaneous strikes on the Hassan Salama and Nassr schools and al Aqsa hospital in Gaza City killed at least 30 people, including children and the elderly. In a televised statement to the nation Monday, army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman announced Sheikh Hasina had resigned as prime minister. Starmer's promises make clear that the new force will be used not just against the far-right but all opposition to the government. The prominent role assigned to Fain by the Harris campaign shows the degree to which the Democratic Party relies on the UAW apparatus to line workers up behind its program of war and austerity. On Friday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin unilaterally overturned a guilty plea agreement reached by prosecutors with lawyers for three 9/11 defendants held at Guantánamo Bay, essentially defending their torture by the CIA. The ISO's support for imperialism in Ukraine demolishes its anti-war pretentions. While participating in protests against the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, it simultaneously supports the no less predatory and criminal war of the US and NATO against Russia. The crew working on the Grosvenor longwall had a close call with serious injury or death in the same mine where a methane explosion severely injured five miners in 2020. A precipitous drop in iron ore prices, mirrored by those of key critical minerals, has serious implications for the Australian economy and government revenues. After dragging its feet for nearly two years and having been finally forced to call a strike by the companies' intransigence, SAG-AFTRA is limiting the action to the greatest extent possible. Oil and biofuel workers in Argentina have walked out over income taxes imposed by the Milei administration while negotiations on a national contract for Costco drivers are set to start August 21. The housing-aid lottery in New York City attracted 630,000 applicants, of which 200,000 were placed on the wait list. It will ultimately provide assistance to less than 20,000 households. The announcement by Deutsche Bahn (DB) boss Richard Lutz to cut 30,000 jobs is a frontal assault on all rail workers. 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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