 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton of Valais. Only a few houses remained standing, and these are now flooded by a pool of water that has formed behind the debris. Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN's humanitarian office, told reporters in a briefing that "One hundred percent of the population is at risk of famine." The entire Turkish bourgeois political establishment favours strong ties and close relations with the US and NATO, who are behind the genocide in Israel. On May 30, the US Supreme Court ruled the Trump adminstration could revoke previously granted protections for some 531,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, paving the way for their deportation. At a press conference at the White House on Friday, Donald Trump lauded Elon Musk as he exited DOGE amid the spiraling crisis of his business empire. Workers continue to respond to the independent investigation by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees into the death of 63-year-old Stellantis skilled trades worker Ronald Adams Sr. The failure of a 70-year-old knighted campaigner like Bates—the subject of a BAFTA-winning drama eliciting an outpouring of public sympathy—to secure fair compensation after decades of injustice is a wake-up call. Over the past four months, an escalating crisis has unfolded that has included the closure of multiple school buildings, demonstrations by parents, educators and community members, and revelations of the dire consequences of the chronic underfunding of public education in the state of Wisconsin. As well as the alarming rate of slowdown in global development, the report found that inequality between Low Human Development Indices and Very High Human Development Indices countries grew for the fourth successive year, reversing a long-term trend that had seen inequalities between rich and poor countries decline. The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment. Michelin management is preparing a broader witch-hunt against the Midigama factory workers to crush their struggle for job security amid uncertainty over the plant's future. The two leaders of the Liberal-National Coalition jointly announced a shadow ministry this week, just eight days after declaring a split between their two parties. Nonprofit ChristianaCare announced it would buy several of the smaller facilities associated with Crozer Health during the auctions, leaving the larger Crozer and Taylor hospitals permanently shut down. The strikers include respiratory therapists, licensed vocational nurses, surgical technicians, and imaging technologists—many of whom have endured nearly eight months without a contract. Tea plantation workers in West Bengal protest the lack of clean drinking water; Australian bus drivers stop work over wages and safety; New Zealand doctors strike over understaffing and low pay. Workers must be on guard in particular against any last minute snap contract votes used either to block a strike or rapidly shut it down, and be prepared to take measures to countermand such betrayals. On Wednesday, the cabinet approved two legislative proposals by federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, which, in the style of the far-right Alternative for Germany, focus on isolating rather than integrating migrants. 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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