Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Imperialism launches its “final solution” to the Palestinian
question
The final stages of Israel's genocidal "final solution"—the mass murder and deportation of Gazans— is being carried with the full support of all the imperialist powers and their Arab bourgeois lackeys.
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What is unfolding in Gaza, a crime of monumental proportions, has the most far-reaching political implications. It exposes the essential nature of imperialism and all “democratic” capitalist governments. In his imperishable analysis of imperialism, written in 1916 in the midst of World War I, Lenin warned that the distinction between bourgeois democracies and the old monarchical autocracies was being obliterated. A century later, modern imperialist regimes, the self-proclaimed defenders of human rights, justify, support and even applaud the mass murder of an entire population.
The normalization of genocide is an inseparable component of the intensification of attacks on democratic rights, the impoverishment of the working class and the war plans of the imperialist governments. In all of the imperialist capitals, from Washington to Berlin, London and Tokyo, governments are massively expanding military spending while slashing social programs.
While the leaders of every imperialist government—and their Middle Eastern client regimes—support the genocide carried out by Israel, the overwhelming majority of the world’s population is horrified by these crimes. In cities and towns across the globe, millions of people—including countless thousands of Jews—have joined mass protests against the Gaza genocide. An unbridgeable chasm has opened between the mass of the world’s people, outraged by the genocide, and their governments.
2. Political issues revealed in Biden’s advanced cancer diagnosis
Far from “defending democracy” the Democratic Party, with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the forefront, sought to cover up and conceal Biden’s advanced health problems in order to install Kamala Harris, a trusted agent of imperialism and advocate of continuing war against Russia and genocide in Gaza.
3. Protesters at mass London demonstration denounce Israel’s Gaza genocide
“They're cracking down on freedom of speech because they want to crack down on anyone who wants to take action against what's happening. It seems to me like it's at least British collusion with Israel because they're selling weapons and they're doing big business with it.”
4. US postal workers discuss how to fight privatization at USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting
The meeting discussed the program from the Committee’s recent statement in response to the appointment of David Steiner, a member of the Fedex Board of Directors, as new Postmaster General, and took reports from postal workers around the world.
5. University job cuts continue under re-elected Australian Labor government
Returned to office with the backing of the campus trade unions, the Albanese government is presiding over the elimination of thousands of jobs in universities, especially in arts and humanities.
6. The 2025 San Francisco International Film Festival— Part 3: Only on Earth (Spain), The Wolves Always Come at Night (Mongolia), I Dreamed His Name (Colombia), The Brink of Dreams (Egypt) and Beloved Tropic (Panama): Sincerity and passivity
There are many difficult, urgent social, political and cultural problems at present. And there are numerous filmmakers willing to address them, to one extent or another.
7. Australia: New South Wales Labor government moves to slash workers’ compensation
This is an attack on the fundamental premise of workers’ compensation legislation— that employers are financially responsible for workplace injuries, illness and death.
8. Moody’s cuts US credit rating as debt crisis grows
For the first time in history the US does not have a top rating from any of the top three credit agencies
9. New Zealand Greens posture as “socialist” with alternative budget
While the NZ government has denounced the Greens as “Marxist” and “socialist,” it is nothing of the sort: The party has a long record of supporting and joining right-wing, pro-war Labour governments.
Responsibility for the rise of Chega lies with what the media promote as the "left" in Portugal, which has betrayed and repressed an increasingly militant wave of class struggles in recent years.
"The basic cause of Ronald Adams Sr.’s death was the same as that of the three deaths at our plant right here in Hamilton: the prioritization of corporate profits over the safety and very lives of the workers who produce them."
11. Peruvian general strike demands resignation of President
Boluarte
This strike was distinguished from previous ones due to the broader participation and scope of its demands.
12. Left Party conference hides support for Germany's Merz government with left-wing rhetoric
While resolutions and speeches were not short on radical rhetoric aimed at appealing to radicalized young people and workers, they remained deliberately vague in order to cover up the party’s right-wing realpolitik.
13. Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bolivia:
March by supporters of Evo Morales is repressed in La Paz
Ceramic workers strike over the death of a worker in Salta Province
- Canada:
- Chile:
Students expel presidential candidates from the University of Valparaiso
- Panama:
National strike continues in the face of government repression
- United States:
14. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Bogdan Syrotiuk
Internationally, major artistic figures such as Roger Waters and Ai Wei Wei as well as historians such as Mario Kessler and Christian Gerlach have supported the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk. Many political tendencies have also condemned his imprisonment and called for his release, despite their political differences with the Trotskyist movement. These include Jill Stein from the Greens in the United States, and several groups and websites in Russia and Turkey. Most recently, the website of the Socialist Laborer Party in Turkey, and that of the Partisan Defense Committee, which is affiliated with the Spartacist tendency, have issued statements in support of Bogdan.
