 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The diversion of massive resources from social programs and jobs into the war machine is setting the European imperialist powers on a collision course with the working class. Israeli air strikes continued across Gaza over the weekend and on Monday, with dozens of Palestinians killed, including 36 people who died from an assault on a school in the Daraj area of Gaza City where displaced families were being sheltered. Human rights group Al-Haq contended that the UK government's continued licensing of arms exports, particularly F-35 components—knowing that they could end up in Israel's hands—makes the UK complicit in potential violations of international law, including the Genocide Convention. The Marxist movement opposes individual terrorism as deeply reactionary. History shows that such actions only spread political confusion and embolden the capitalist state to crack down on democratic rights. So is the case again. The fascist content of Trump's speeches is being completely buried by the capitalist press. If the threatened tariffs go ahead after the new deadline of July, they will deliver a hammer blow to major European industries and economies. Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign Office memo notoriously belittled the Chagossians as "a few Tarzans and Man Fridays". The Educators Rank-and-File Committee stands in unwavering solidarity with autoworkers demanding an independent, rank-and-file investigation into the death of the 63-year-old worker. The transformation of Boeing's legal predicament from a criminal fraud conviction to a complete dismissal of charges represents the calculated intervention of the American state on behalf of the military-industrial complex. The arrest of Leonardo Venegas signals that repression aimed at immigrants will be used as a dress rehearsal for wider attacks on the entire working class. It is high time that railroad workers take measures to enforce their democratic will, countermand the betrayals of the union officials and return power from the union offices to the workers where it belongs. The Transport Action Committee is challenging the Verdi union in the current Staff Council elections at Berlin local transit operator BVG. The United Workers Union is restricting workers to time-limited stoppages, confining the dispute to a single factory and refusing to provide strike pay. Next Manufacturing claims "high operational costs" are responsible for the factory's closure. This is a warning that jobs at the company's two other factories are under threat. The Labor government, like the UK and other imperialist powers, is cynically seeking to distance itself from a modern-day Holocaust that it has supported at every step. An assault on a protest by pensioners in Buenos Aires left 80 injured, while 4,000 workers compensation workers in Ontario are now on strike against brutal workplace conditions. A physician assistant and nurse describe how quickly the medical center moved to cut 1,000 jobs in the absence of any serious opposition from the trade unions. The recent leadership elections have revealed the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) bureaucracy's deepening crisis of authority after its latest contract sellout Dozens of bands are withdrawing from festivals financed by investment giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). All of the more than 3,000 job cuts nationally flow from the Labor government's cuts to international student enrolments and its under-funding and pro-corporate restructuring of universities. 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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