 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The fatal Clairton Coke Works blast, which claimed two lives and injured ten, exposes decades of unsafe conditions maintained to protect profits at the expense of workers' lives. One day after President Donald Trump announced the federal takeover of the Washington D.C. police and the dispatch of 800 National Guard troops to occupy the capital, the Washington Post reported on secret plans for a rapid deployment force of troops to move into cities facing "protests or other unrest." The assassination of Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a journalists' tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday has provoked a wave of mass anger and condemnation around the globe. The US government is continuing to cover up a viral outbreak at so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" and the near-death of Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez. US Customs and Border Protection agents violently arrest Los Angeles nurse monitoring ICE operations The violent arrest of a Los Angeles nurse by CBP agents marks a dangerous escalation in the militarization of American society, advancing the drive toward dictatorship and suppression of working class opposition. Workers at the company and throughout the logistics industry are underpaid and have long faced unsafe working conditions and brutal hours. The arrest of migrant rights defender Luis Rey García Villagrán marks a major escalation in the assault on democratic rights by the Mexican government in collaboration with Trump. Talks with Health Secretary Wes Streeting have been described as a "window of opportunity" to rule out any further strike action for the summer period, while the RDC attempt to cobble together a sellout they can put a face-saving spin on. A recent United Nations survey identified hundreds of millions of people globally not able to have the number of children they want. Echoed by the Labor government, the Reserve Bank of Australia board's statement on monetary policy featured 297 references to the need to boost "productivity." While doctors want to reject the deal and resume industrial action, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation is adopting a "neutral" position, continuing to enforce a strike ban and seeking to subordinate the physicians' struggle to arbitration. Workers are determined to reject a contract requiring new employees to wait 12 years for top pay, with 20 percent wage increases that tariff-driven inflation would quickly erode. 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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