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Hello, I am Joseph Kishore, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party. I am writing to ask you today to make the largest possible contribution to the World Socialist Web Site. Donate today Two weeks ago, David North, chairperson of the international editorial board, made an appeal in which he explained that the crisis of capitalism is no longer a matter of political speculation but the daily reality of the international working class. Every event since has confirmed his words. One is particularly significant. On June 12, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, the product of a social order organized from top to bottom to funnel the wealth created by billions of working people into the hands of a tiny financial aristocracy. A single individual now controls a fortune larger than the economies of most countries on earth. This is the face of the oligarchy that rules America and the world. The United States now has 935 billionaires, whose fortunes have swelled by some $1.5 trillion in the first year of Trump’s second term in office alone. At the opposite pole, the bottom half of American households own barely 2.5 percent of the nation’s wealth. This oligarchy does not merely own the wealth. It owns the means through which that wealth is defended. It controls the print and broadcast media, the social media platforms, and the machinery of the state itself. The drive toward dictatorship, the breakdown of democracy of which Trump is the most grotesque expression, flows directly from this concentration of wealth. And it is not confined to one party or one country. The entire political establishment—Democrats no less than Republicans, the governments of Europe rearming for war, the same regimes presiding over the Gaza genocide and the war against Iran—functions as the political defender of capitalist wealth and of imperialist violence. The official “opposition” exists to channel mass anger back into the safe confines of the system it serves. This is what makes the World Socialist Web Site entirely unique. There is no other publication on earth doing what it does. It does not merely analyze the crisis from the sidelines. The WSWS is engaged in the construction, within a developing class struggle, of a revolutionary political leadership for the working class. That work requires resources. We must expand our staff and our coverage, develop our use of technology, and build the WSWS into a still more powerful instrument of the class struggle—as our recent introduction of Socialism AI demonstrates is possible. The oligarchy commands trillions. Our movement is built on the contributions of working people who understand what is at stake. So I ask you: make the largest donation you can today. And do not stop there—sign up for a regular monthly contribution so that the resources of the WSWS rest on a firm and ongoing foundation.   Donate $5 Donate $25 Donate $100 Donate $500   Joseph Kishore National Secretary Socialist Equality Party (US) World Socialist Web Site We’re powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. © Copyright 2026, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.

Ukrainian-Polish diplomatic crisis over Nazi collaboration exposes NATO war with Russia

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Ukrainian-Polish diplomatic crisis over Nazi collaboration exposes NATO war with Russia The diplomatic crisis over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promotion of anti-Polish Nazi-collaborationist forces during World War II is stripping away the political lies in which the NATO imperialist powers have shrouded their proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Read more With US-Iran negotiations on the verge of breakdown, Democrats, Republicans intensify attack on Iran agreement The agreement between the Trump administration and Iran that suspended the four-month war began to unravel over the weekend, four days after US President Donald Trump signed it at Versailles, as leading Democrats and Republicans intensified their attack on it as a capitulation to Iran. Read more UK Labour government colludes in illegal sale of stolen Palestinian land “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” in London was part of an international roadshow that previously visited Toronto and New York City, encouraging prospective buyers from the United States, the UK and South Africa to “explore the best Anglo neighbourhoods” and find their “dream home”. Read more 85 years since the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union 85 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the German military invaded the Soviet Union. It combined the barbarism of the Middle Ages with the most modern technology of the 20th century. Read more The US government’s multi-pronged push to coerce young people into the military The drive to corral working class youth into uniform through automatic conscription registration, the expansion of JROTC and the deepening “economic draft” is being intensified as the US builds for World War III. Read more No voting inside Nexteer plant! No to the fourth sellout deal! Strike Now! In an transparent effort to silence opposition, UAW Local 699 officials intend to hold the vote inside the plant where a worker was fired for criticizing a UAW rep during a contract rollout meeting. Read more “I was never a leftist,” Brazil’s Lula assures the IMF and imperialist powers at the G7 In a conversation recorded on the margins of the G7 summit, Brazilian President Lula assured the IMF’s managing director and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he had "never" been a leftist. Read more Turkish shipyard workers revolt against union sellout on eve of strike At the shipyard, where 2,000 workers are employed, the workers protested the union’s sellout with chants of “Union, resign!” Read more Chicago nurses vote overwhelmingly to unionize at Prime Healthcare's Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Chicago nurses at Prime Healthcare's Saint Mary of Nazareth voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The win against a for-profit chain with a long record of obstruction opens a longer fight over the road ahead. Read more USPS worker twice exposed to acid at Arizona mega-facility A former United States Postal Service electronics technician says he was exposed twice to muriatic acid at USPS’ massive Avondale, Arizona processing hub, according to reporting last week by the Arizona Republic. Read more For a rank-and-file inquiry into UK’s Bedford train collision that killed driver and injured 100 The self-serving reassurances issued by Labour government ministers and rail executives are aimed at preventing accountability. The investigation is assigned to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, whose function is to examine the causes, not assign blame, establish liability or pursue prosecutions. Read more University of Michigan graduate student workers’ union extends contract On May 1, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Local 3350 of the American Federation of Teachers, extended the old contract with the University of Michigan and announced no plans to strike for a new agreement. Read more DSA member Janeese Lewis George wins Washington D.C. mayoral primary, pledges to work with Trump DSA member Janeese Lewis George won D.C.’s Democratic mayoral primary on a wave of working class radicalization—which her election will serve to contain and misdirect, not advance. Read more Die Linke/Left Party congress provides a safety valve for capitalism Every sentence of the lead motion presented at the congress is formulated in such a way that it combines mild criticism of existing conditions with a policy that is compatible with that of the federal government – and in stretches also with that of the far-right Alternative for Germany. Read more Keiko Fujimori claims Peru election victory amid protests, fraud allegations and open US intervention The results reflect not a popular mandate but the determination of Peru's ruling class and Washington to prevent even a hint of social reforms that could feed the class struggle. Read more The ignominious role of Chile’s “left” in Kast’s sweeping assault on immigrants Kast's program represents a social counterrevolution targeting first the most vulnerable section of the population—some 337,000 irregular immigrants and refugees. Read more Australian Labor government covers up cruelty of refugee detention in Nauru A parliamentary committee has been given evidence of the lack of medical care and other shocking conditions for detainees on the remote Pacific island. Read more New Zealand: Company, union gag workers from speaking publicly on train crash Train services resumed on the Johnsonville line in Wellington last week following a crash on June 6 that injured six people. Read more This week in history: June 22-28 India rail bridge collapse kills 59; Polish workers strike against price hikes imposed by Stalinist regime;; Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh appeals to the US against Britain; Spanish military officers attempt coup against Primo de Rivera Read more 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. We’re powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. Copyright © 2024, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.