 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the October 1917 Russian Revolution. At least ten Palestinians desperately seeking food at distribution centers have been killed over the past two days, after Israeli troops opened fire on aid-seekers for a second day in a row Wednesday. Even as the ruling class revels in its ties to the British monarchy and decries Trump's actions targeting Canada, its preference and primary objective is to secure for Canadian imperialism the status of a duly recognized junior partner in a Trump-led Fortress North America. Signatories include prominent authors Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi, Irvine Welsh, William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Elif Shafak, Jonathan Coe, Susie Orbach and Andrew O'Hagan. At least 1,400 health care workers have been killed in Israeli attacks. The World Health Organization has reported that 94 percent of hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed and there are only 2,000 beds for a population of over 2 million. The European Union's 17th packet of sanctions against Russia also sanctions pro-Russia and pro-Palestine media and German journalists. It represents an open attack on the democratic right to freedom of the press. Medin's fate illustrates the fraudulent propaganda put out by the NATO powers about their war for "democracy" against Russia in Ukraine. Some 15 years after the war crimes were perpetrated, McBride remains the only individual behind bars over the atrocities, not for committing them, but for exposing them. Whatever the end result of the negotiations, it is the working class that will shoulder the costs of the US trade war measures. Raymond Feige, a 59-year-old Department of Environmental Protection worker, was killed Saturday, May 24. Union members were forced to vote on this tentative agreement the same morning it was reached, giving them no time to study or consider its details. There has not been a picket since April 2, almost two months ago, and the union has been largely silent on the state of negotiations on the Interactive Media Agreement (IMA). The attacks on education in São Paulo are part of an offensive by global ruling elites against the social and democratic rights of the working class as they turn toward fascism and war. 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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