US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed The Trump administration’s campaign of extrajudicial killings off the coast of Latin America has killed more than 200 people, exposing the complicity of the Democratic Party and all regional governments with the normalization of mass murder as imperialist policy. Read more New Jersey Democrats unleash police riot against anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall As immigrants inside Delaney Hall continue their hunger and labor strike, Democratic officials have deployed state and local police to attack protesters, journalists and residents outside the facility. Read more The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 1 Reducing the origins of the war to the manoeuvres of the Israel lobby or the decisions of Israel’s government sidelines the historical, geopolitical, socio‑economic and class dynamics that have shaped the conflict. Read more While Wall Street claims “no money” for city’s transit workers, fire at New York’s Penn Station injures 5 A predawn fire at Penn Station, injuring five workers, is the second major rail disruption in two weeks and a result of the systematic neglect of public infrastructure in the shadow of Wall Street. Read more Mamdani’s “COGE” commission to prepare deeper cuts to New York City social programs and regulations After avoiding mass layoffs and cuts to social programs in the 2027 New York City budget, Mamdani has announced the formation of COGE to recommend the implementation of permanent austerity. Read more Democratic Party austerity, pseudo-left posturing and a MAGA aspirant: The 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race Los Angeles voters head to the polls amid a billion-dollar budget crisis, mass layoffs and ecological disaster to choose among candidates offering austerity, pseudo-left posturing or right-wing populism. Read more Long COVID affects twice as many Americans as official counts show, new AI study finds A new AI study from Mass General Brigham finds that roughly one in six Americans who contracted COVID-19 developed long COVID, more than double the rate captured by official surveillance, exposing the human and economic toll hidden by flawed diagnostic systems. Read more Germany’s Council of Economic Experts demands “U-turn” on care, health and pensions The German Council of Economic Experts is demanding deep cuts in social spending to pass the costs of the Iran war, rearmament and the enrichment of the rich onto the weakest in society. Read more Chile under the fascistic Kast government: Preliminary assessment of a social counterrevolution The Kast administration has issued a battery of anti-democratic and pro-market executive decrees that will deepen already extreme social inequality, while vastly expanding police state structures built up under Boric. Read more 3 miners killed in the US over 3 days Together they expose a single reality: The mining companies, the federal and state regulators and the union apparatus are all part of the same machinery that treats miners' lives as a cost of production. Read more Death of vulnerable 69-year-old man in terrible conditions exposes UK’s social care, housing and local government crises In its 2024/25 budget, Oldham Council proposed cutting £2.8 million from health and social care, reducing care contracts, and cutting 12 social worker posts. Read more Why are art schools disappearing in America? Arts education has suffered an unprecedented reversal in the past few years. Art schools, a number of which have served students and communities for over 100 years, have been abruptly closed. Read more New Zealand budget deepens austerity to make workers pay for war The budget starves public healthcare and cuts education and welfare, while pouring money into prisons and the military. Read more Australia: Bondi terrorist was on ASIO radar in 2022 The information that has dripped out over the past six months has indicated far more intensive and longstanding contact between the intelligence agency and the terrorists than first admitted. Read more Australia: Victorian education support staff speak out against AEU-Labor sellout “If members can’t ask questions or raise concerns without being censored, what sort of democracy is that? The union clearly works for the government not for us.” Read more This week in history: June 1-7 Massacre of royal family in Nepal; Teton Dam collapse kills 11 in Idaho; US Supreme Court upholds convictions of Communist Party leaders; Pilsudski chooses crony as Polish president. 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. 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