 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In Singapore, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific to boost military spending and put themselves on a war footing for conflict with China. The overwhelming response demonstrates the deep anger among workers over unsafe conditions in factories and the systematic cover-up of workplace fatalities by the corporations and union bureaucracies. The Socialist Equality Party (UK) hosted a public meeting in London May 31, addressed by Momodou Taal, the British-Gambian student who challenged US President Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on free speech and the right to protest the Gaza genocide. Taal spoke at Saturday's meeting for the first time about the circumstances surrounding his persecution by the US government. The IYSSE invites students, university lecturers and employees to attend this significant meeting which will discuss the life-and-death questions now confronting humanity. Jonathan Joss, 59, known for voicing John Redcorn in King of the Hill and a number of other roles was shot to death outside the ruins of his San Antonio, Texas home after the gunman shouted violent homophobic slurs according to his husband. The WSU rally underscored how much the Albanese government depends on the capacity of union officials and their pseudo-left allies to divert and suppress the brewing discontent in the universities and the working class as a whole. Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the run-off election to become Poland's next president. His entry into office will heighten the country's political crisis. Lower growth will be "felt around the world" with higher debt levels increasing the risk of shocks in financial markets. Throughout a rambling speech Friday, Trump repeatedly called steel crucial for a strong military and made clear that the tariffs were meant to restructure US industry to be able to fight China. In an attempt to divert attention from their own role in helping impose job losses, the BLET published a statement on its website trying to scapegoat Mexican railroaders for job losses in the United States. A wave of teachers strikes from Mexico to Panama, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil signal the emergence of a counteroffensive against the onslaught of attacks on public education and other social rights across Latin America. President Ruto's April visit to Beijing to meet President Xi took place amid escalating US-China tensions. A funding crisis, the result of the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to tax the wealthy, threatens catastrophic service cuts to transit riders in Chicago. Labor's extension of the North West Shelf gas project demonstrates that, no less than the Liberal-National Coalition, it will ardently defend the profit interests of fossil fuel giants regardless of climate change. Prominent media and arts personalities including Benedict Cumberbatch, Dua Lipa and Gary Lineker have joined academics, doctors, lawyers and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos in signing the letter Calling out Starmer's recently calling the genocide "intolerable" while continuing to arm Israel. 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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