 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project's attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm the population in the face of the fascist threat. Ten Palestinians have died of starvation or malnutrition over the past 24 hours due to the deliberate famine created by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll from the famine to 313, including 119 children. On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a further tightening of the Trump administration's grip on the nation's capital with his department's takeover of management of Union Station. Growing protests against immigrant detention, suppression of history and glorification of state violence reflect a developing movement of workers and youth determined to oppose Trump's authoritarian measures and defend democratic and social rights. Stamp identified himself as part of "the first wave of the educated, real, working class." In the starkest expression of his war against science and public health, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demanded the resignation of the director of the Centers for Disease Control, career scientist Susan Monarez, triggering the resignation in protest by four other high-level public health officials. The inability of the moribund capitalist system to effectively address climate change and all its myriad devastating consequences poses an existential crisis for humanity. The tariffs threaten to badly destabilize an Indian economy that already confronts slowing growth and is characterized by low private investment and mass unemployment and underemployment. Socialist Alternative's Sydney conference promoted the fraud of protest politics, that have manifestly failed to halt the Gaza genocide, and sought to justify its creation of reformist electoral fronts. Italian dockworkers' struggle against Saudi shipping giant Bahri shows how the working class can fight genocide and war and raises important political issues facing workers internationally. What remains of the hard-won social achievements of the past are to be thrown to the profit-hungry wolves of the stock markets and channelled into rearmament. A mass shooting by 23-year-old Robin Westman at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis left two children dead and 17 others injured. The 50-question multiple-choice test will screen for radical leftist ideology, gender ideology, and American exceptionalism. At least $50 million will be paid directly to the Transport Workers Union, which unsurprisingly hailed the decision as a massive victory. The spike in the wholesale price index "shows inflation is coursing through the economy." The unions caved in to government threats without any of the strike's 19 demands—including unpaid overtime benefits, job security, workplace conditions, and the imposition of fingerprint machines—being met. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers' tentative contract announces minimal raises, token parental leave, harsher attendance rules and rising healthcare costs for new employees in a bid to oppose any struggle among teachers. Many postal workers have been looking at what the flight attendants did and asking themselves, "Why didn't we defy the government like the flight attendants?" This question is entirely legitimate, but it's important to recognize that the flight attendants' courageous defiance was not enough to prevent their union leaders from stabbing them in the back. As set out in her interview with NLR, Sultana's "vision" for the party is a variant of the reformist half-measures championed by Corbyn and her only proposal to prevent another political rout is to put the right people (such as herself) in place to ensure "institutional resilience". 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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