 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. As the United States begins the 250th year of its existence, it is in the throes of a political, social, intellectual and cultural counterrevolution. At least 600 Palestinians have been killed over the past five weeks at food distributions operated by the US and Israeli-backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF), Gaza's government media office said this week. Ward Sakeik, a 22-year-old stateless Palestinian, was released from ICE customer late Tuesday just two days after the Trump administration failed to illegally deport her to a third country for a second time. In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities said the scene remained too dangerous for firefighters and emergency workers to extinguish ongoing fires and search for the missing workers. The bill cuts taxes for the wealthy by $3 trillion, slashes more than $1 trillion from social spending on Medicaid and food stamps and pours $300 billion more into military violence abroad and domestic repression, particularly against immigrants. Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a coordinated abandonment of America's role in global health leadership with devastating consequences for the world's most vulnerable populations. Numerous reports suggest strikers are either ignoring or skirting around the injunction limiting pickets to 8 people, while a standoff occurred Wednesday between police and strikers attempting to enforce the picket line at a trash drop-off site. The budget, which will force a 45 percent reduction in services, places the working class throughout the region on a collision course with the two-party system's budget cutting agenda. While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the German government is intensifying its military cooperation with Kiev. Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution. By cutting international student enrolments, the Labor government is deliberately applying financial pressure to the universities, in order to restructure them to align with "national priorities" set out in last year's Universities Accord report. Over 5,000 job cuts across UK universities have been announced this year, with thousands more in the pipeline. But staff unions led by the UCU are blocking a united fightback. A Dana Ft. Wayne, Indiana worker describes conditions at his workplace after hearing about the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr. Amid an unfolding global conflict, workers in Sri Lanka—Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim—stand in the same trench as their class brothers in Iran, Gaza, throughout the Middle East, including Israel, and internationally. LA's City Council—including four members of the DSA—voted unanimously to declare a "fiscal emergency" vote by the LA City Council, setting the stage for major cuts in America's second-largest city. Luxon made explicit at the NATO summit that he fully supports the war in the Ukraine against Russia while doubling NZ's military spending, aimed ultimately at China. Canada's ruling class is rushing to implement massive military spending hikes and Trump-like socio-economic policies, using his bullying as the cover to push through changes for which it has long agitated. Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself. General strike in Ramallah governorate of West Bank sparked by settler killings of Palestinians; teachers and council workers in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria continue stoppage over minimum wage and pay arrears 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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