 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Trump's program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War. The Nikolaev appeals court based its argumentation on a distortion of a previous ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. Trump's moves have been accompanied by warnings from financial circles that loss of Fed independence will have major consequences for the US financial stability and the position of the dollar. Prime Minister Albanese announced unprecedented measures, including the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador, based on unsubstantiated and implausible accusations. Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of "Free Palestine," festival staff cut the band's sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting "Let them play." Despite efforts in using water containment booms to halt the spillage of oil, residents some 30 miles south of the Tangipahoa River, which runs alongside the explosion site, have reported seeing oil on the surface of the river. The refusal to date of top national and state elected Democrats to endorse the party's candidate in the country's largest city, more than two months after the primary, is extraordinary. It is an expression of a deep crisis pervading the Democratic Party. The gerrymandering tit-for-tat between Democrats and Republicans signals the decomposition of American democracy, as both parties dismantle democratic norms, leaving the future of the 2026 elections in doubt. ICE has arrested parents and students in at least ten documented cases, an escalation of repression that is being deployed against the entire working class. The Bayrou government's fall would set into motion an explosive crisis that can only be resolved on a progressive basis by building a revolutionary movement in the working class. With the visit of German Finance Minister, Social Democrat leader, and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil to Kiev earlier this week, the German government has finally moved to the forefront of the imperialist war offensive in Eastern Europe. The IYSSE provided a powerful counter to the platform of appeals to the Labor government and university management outlined by the pseudo-left organisers of the Special General Meeting. While recent media headlines, and police and government reactions, have focused on allegations of sexual abuse, the staffing crisis in childcare is long standing and points to deep systematic problems. Coming on top of the current month-long strike by 3,200 workers at Boeing jet fighter plants in Missouri and Illinois, a strike by GE Aerospace workers would substantially impact the US war machine. Healthcare workers confront not only Kaiser Permanente, but a treacherous union bureaucracy enmeshed with management through corporatist schemes like the "Labor Management Partnership." Opposition among Volkswagen employees against the sweeping cuts to jobs and wages worked out with the help of the IG Metall union is growing. Union officials are warning: "The mood is turning." With the complicity of the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire, the unions are working to revive the Parti Québécois, a chauvinist big business party, long discredited due to its implementation of capitalist austerity and antistrike laws. Reform UK can only be considered as a potential government due to the noxious atmosphere created over decades of Labour and Conservatives governments, competing as to which was more right-wing with their scapegoating of immigrants and asylum seekers playing a leading role 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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