 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Even as Washington and its proxy forces in Israel set the Middle East on fire, the Biden-Harris administration is exploiting Sunday's presidential elections to foment a coup Venezuela. That so many people are unable to feed themselves in the third decade of the 21st century, amid unprecedented scientific and technological developments in food production and distribution, is a searing indictment of the capitalist system. Between June 11 and 19 alone, 192 deaths among homeless people occurred in the capital city of Delhi. The UAW's endorsement of first Biden then Harris—both lifelong corporate shills—further refutes any claims of "democracy" or "transparency" within the union. With the ALU and the Teamsters offering no strategy against Amazon, workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, must seize the initiative in their struggle against the retail giant. The video of the event shows the whole incident to have taken place in just about 16 seconds, revealing police are operating in a manner identical to that of an occupying military force. A postie from Yorkshire explained: "The new 40-minute loops are twice as long as the old loops… It's exhausting, because you're barely stopping from one loop to the next. And the bags are so much heavier." The WSWS warns that the Rail and Maritime Transport Union is preparing to impose another sellout agreement on hundreds of rail workers, after years in which wages have fallen behind the cost of living. The airline entered voluntary administration this week and immediately grounded its capital city jet services. The shortage of nurses in the US is at its worst in four decades and is expected to widen by hundreds of thousands of nurses per year, while the International Council of Nurses last year described the global nurse shortage as a "global health emergency." Greece's health workers' struggle against privatisation of mental health services and addiction centres continues with a strike by doctors; general strike in West Bank over assassination of Hamas leader in Iranian capital Tehran and Hezbollah leader in Lebanese capital Beirut as NATO seeks to expand war in Middle East; electricity workers in Enugu State, Nigeria protest to demand release of workers arrested for demanding pay arrears and medical scheme reinstated and end to bullying 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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