 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The military siege of Venezuela marks a new stage in an unprecedented escalation of US imperialist aggression against Latin America as a whole. The arming of over 2,200 National Guard soldiers in the capital city is a major step towards martial law. The crackdown and intimidation of political opponents is a critical aspect of Trump's erection of a presidential dictatorship and police state. The UN-affiliated body that monitors mass hunger has for the first time officially declared a famine in Gaza City and warned that other areas of Gaza will soon face famine. Underscoring that the bureaucracy is fully aware of the fact that it has sold out the flight attendants, it is denying them the right to vote on the portion of the agreement related to pre-flight pay—and all other aspects of the agreement—other than the wage schedule. This is the latest in a string of industrial disasters in the United States. A central claim of the "Fighting Oligarchy" speaking tour and an axis of Sanders' political activity is the notion that the Democratic Party is, was, or could be a party of the working class. In words that constitute an indictment of the RCP's political amnesia regarding Corbyn's new party, Trotsky wrote of "the 'left' leaders" who "readily changed their line" to accommodate pressure from below: "to evaluate them one must take both sides of the matter into account. Revolutionaries need a good memory." Mélenchon's nationalist calls for France get more of the "cards of power" show that the NFP and the union bureaucracies will not seriously fight social cuts to fund French militarism. For the German government, the arrest comes at a very inopportune time. If the suspect reveals who was behind the attack, it could lead to serious tensions with Kiev and Washington. The National Party-led government is seeking to cut teachers' pay relative to inflation, claiming it has no money, while diverting billions of dollars to the military. With the full complicity of the participating trade union chiefs, the "economic reform" summit became a vehicle to launch deeper cuts to social programs, boost corporate profits and prepare for war. A perusal of the artworks on show in the Biennale, disappoints, in one major respect shocks, and makes clear that enormous questions of orientation remain unresolved. Grocery workers face not only poverty wages, corporate domination and intensifying attacks on democratic rights under the Trump administration, but a campaign of sabotage by union bureaucurats. India: 20,000 National Health Mission workers in Maharashtra strike indefinitely; Punjab roadway and transport contract workers demand permanent jobs; Bangladesh refinery workers demand higher wages; Australia: Qantas engineers continue pay rise strike; New Zealand nurses start new round of industrial action 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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