Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Federal monitor allows UAW official who issued death threat against Will Lehman to collect his $200,000 salary  Six weeks after a $202,000-a-year UAW official posted an image of Will Lehman bound, gagged and under the gun, the court-appointed Monitor has left the question of his continued employment in the hands of the apparatus he was campaigning for. Read more Russia and Ukraine bleed as NATO’s war threatens to engulf Europe Mounting drone and missile “deep strikes” are a response to the fact that the frontline has been fought to a bloody standstill—in a meatgrinder of trenches, artillery and drones. Read more International support surges for jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sentencing to 15 years in prison on August 10. Read more Ukrainian government reinters another Nazi collaborator The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets. Read more Oligarchy, dictatorship and the political radicalization of the American working class We are publishing here the report delivered by Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the party’s Ninth National Congress, held August 2–7, 2026. Read more Trump turns screws on South Korea to join Iran war Incensed by South Korea’s refusal to join the US war of aggression against Iran, Trump has unilaterally reduced major joint war games that began Monday and announced plans for talks with North Korea. Read more Forklift safety expert calls for independent investigation into catastrophic accident at GM Flint Assembly While forklifts can be equipped with cameras, proximity detectors and collision-warning systems, workers appear to remain dependent largely upon horns, painted lines, mirrors and the ability of a forklift driver to twist around and look backward. Read more Private credit market under growing stress Loan defaults are rising and the number of companies financed by private credit being placed on a watch list is growing. Read more Philippine impeachment trial advances Marcos’ consolidation of state power Behind the constitutional theater in the Philippine Senate, the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte is being staged to eliminate the last significant political obstacle to Washington’s transformation of the archipelago into a forward base for war with China. Read more Australia: SEP meeting discusses how to fight Labor government’s attack on National Disability Insurance Scheme Speakers exposed the disastrous consequences of the evisceration of the NDIS and its impact on the disabled and their families, and the jobs and conditions of health, education and welfare workers. 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.