 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The Trump administration's attacks on science and public health are aimed at the international working class, which bears the brunt of disease, disability, and early death when protective measures are eliminated. The logic of the war is leading directly toward a military clash between Russia and Europe threatening the lives of millions and the destruction of the entire continent. Far from backing down in the wake of Russia's attacks, European governments seized on them to issue new threats and accelerate the war drive. This is the first part of the lecture "Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism" delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation. In frantic phone calls, immigrants reported that guards deployed tear gas and assaulted them. The surge in fatal workplace accidents in Italy exposes the alliance between the state, corporations and union bureaucracy, highlighting the urgent need for rank-and-file committees and an international struggle against capitalist exploitation. If the UAW bureaucracy had to call the strike it was only because Fain & Co. knew they would not be able to impose another sellout on workers fed up with decades of union-backed givebacks. Workers should take the occupations of Los Angeles and Washington D.C. as dire warnings that not just cities, but also individual factories, can and will be placed under military rule if needed to ensure US military violence abroad can continue. The scientists warn: "Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health." Former Fed chief Janet Yellen has warned of the implications for US monetary policy both at home and abroad of Trump's actions. Only after Marles' return was it revealed that his trip to Washington was a desperate attempt to secure a meeting between Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Trump. The "Security Threat Environment" report is aimed at justifying New Zealand's alignment with the US against China, along with increased domestic surveillance and censorship. The conference session was aimed at promoting the conception that no alternative exists or can be built to the existing unions and their leaderships. Speakers placed the struggle of postal workers within the broader crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism and the need for workers to form independent action committees to fight the government's IMF-dictated measures. 1,400 University of Minnesota custodians, cooks, maintenance, and dorm workers prepared for the school's first system-wide strike in nearly fifty years, only to be blocked by Teamsters Local 320 leadership. The Federal Railroad Administration formed the working group to discuss new safety policies in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Two years later it dissolved the group due to lack of progress. The measures serve to massively increase the size of Germany's Armed Forces and secure the cannon fodder for the coming wars of German imperialism. DPD delivery workers in Hamburg, Germany on strike against attack on work conditions; Iraqi Halliburton workers protest contract termination; in Kenya, healthcare workers in Kiambu county continue strike over 90 days and nurses walk out in Busia and Trans Nzoia county hospitals, over pay and cash-starved health system 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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