 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made common cause with fascists to help an authoritarian and racist motion achieve a breakthrough. The crash is the first mass casualty event involving a commercial jet in the United States since 2009. Late Wednesday, the Trump administration announced an executive order aimed at transforming American universities into a surveillance and enforcement arm of the military-intelligence-immigration enforcement apparatus. Republican Congressman Rich McCormick proposed in an interview that free school lunches be removed from schools and children be sent to work for low wages. Bans on child labor were hard-fought battles of the American labor movement. Despite Patel's leading role in perpetrating Trump's failed coup, Gabbard appears to face a much tougher road to Senate confirmation after she refused to unequivocally renounce her previous defense of whistleblower Edward Snowden. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, were complicit in Tuesday's raids. Peradeniya University "is blocking our opportunity to know the truth. Are we supposed to listen only to what the government says? We have never heard of such bans on meetings before and must fight this." – Harsha Large posters in several languages read: "Stop the war," "Stop the genocide in Gaza" and "Two world wars are enough!" The strike is set to unfold amid a massive assault against immigrant workers by Trump, the tip of the spear of his bid for a presidential dictatorship. That the continuing significant upturn in strike activity has led to zero growth in union membership is an indictment of the right wing character of the corporatist US trade unions. New South Wales psychiatrists face the choice of accepting defeat and the onslaught against the public health system, or taking up a unified struggle involving all health workers against the government and the subordination of health to privatisation and austerity. While the attendance at the protests revealed a yearning for a unified struggle against all forms of racism and oppression, the leaders of the marches and speakers subjected the demonstrators to divisive racialist politics. While repeating Trump's lies about Panama, Senate leaders from both parties provide fraudulent justifications for a military intervention against the impoverished Central American country. Health officials are downplaying the TB danger, although the outbreak has continued for a full year with no end in sight. Postal workers must reject not only this insulting and exploitative agreement but also the entire undemocratic framework that bans strikes and imposes binding arbitration, which the National Association of Letter Carriers upholds. The deaths of two individuals in a week at the hands of the Knox County Sheriff's highlight systemic issues of police brutality in the United States. There is promise in Senna's demonstrating an awareness that there exists a "racial identity-industrial complex" in the contemporary world of art and culture. Students and workers in Serbia in ongoing protests after rail building collapse kills 15, prime minister resigns; Iranian oil, gas and petrochemical casual workers protest to demand an end to job insecurity and pay increases; hospital doctors around Nigerian capital Abuja walk out over six months' pay arrears It is the rich and the corporations who will take the lion's share of the benefits from Labour's and all airport expansions, while the poorest around the world pay the costs. 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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