 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, newly installed by the billionaire Ellison family, killed the report on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador, demanding it contain an on-camera response by the Trump administration. The US Coast Guard seized an oil tanker bound for China off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, the second seizure in two weeks, as Washington escalates a naval blockade aimed at overthrowing the Venezuelan government. As the Trump administration accelerates war preparations against Venezuela, the response of Spanish imperialism has been extraordinarily muted. In his speech, Vance rejected any "purity tests" within the MAGA movement. In their role of holding back struggles and demobilizing workers, the trade unions also receive key support both from the Stalinist PCP and from the pseudo-left grouped around the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda). This lecture on the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU and the US capitalist state reviews the trial of the Gelfand case in March of 1983. Mamdani appoints Julie Su, who worked to suppress class struggle under Biden, to major economic post The record of Julie Su reveals the role she will play at City Hall: promoting the labor bureaucracy and collaborating with the unions to suppress class conflict and impose Wall Street's dictates. This feature highlights selected questions and answers from Socialism AI—concise, clear and politically insightful responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time. One of the most significant measures is the proposal to lower the criminal age of responsibility from 15 to 13 years old—making Sweden an outlier not only in Europe but even compared to most US states. Workers at Huntsville are working 14 hours a day; workers are being pulled from other regional facilities and boxes are piling up in front of fire exits, a clear safety hazard. The WSWS spoke with firefighters who have held multiple one-hour strikes in opposition to pay cuts, faulty equipment and understaffing. Macron is seeking to push through an agreement that maintains the Pacific colony as a state within the French Constitution. Workers in Argentina and Bolivia are holding strikes and protests against savage cuts, while in Canada, the United Food and Commercial Workers union has finally set a contract vote after stalling for weeks. "It's not a victory", as the Unite union claims, "Nothing has changed", tram drivers tell WSWS reporters. 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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