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Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war
US President Trump’s threat to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazil, to come into effect on August 1, was an extraordinary act of imperialist intervention which adds a new dimension to the economic war against the world being waged by his administration.
It came after Trump had sent a series of letters to US trading partners, friend and foe alike, announcing that major tariffs would go ahead from the beginning of next month under the banner of “reciprocal tariffs.”
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The measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, raising further questions about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
2. Teamsters bureaucrats feign outrage as UPS announces buyout plans for full-time drivers
United Parcel Service (UPS) has announced it will offer buyouts to full-time drivers for the first time in its history. The so-called “Driver Voluntary Severance Plan” is the latest part of the company’s jobs massacre, including plans to eliminate 20,000 jobs this year.
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The immediate justification for the driver buyout plan is the severe reduction of UPS’s deliveries for Amazon. UPS plans to reduce its Amazon shipments in half by the middle of 2026, citing the high cost of delivery and the lack of profitability. Amazon parcels makes up to a quarter of UPS volume, but only 11.8 percent of revenue according to management.
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The Teamsters bureaucracy have responded by denouncing the plan as a violation of the 2023 contract. A statement from the Teamsters preceding the official announcement from UPS argued that the program “would undermine UPS’s own legal commitment to create 22,500 more jobs under its current Teamsters contract.”
This is a reference to Article 22.3 of the Teamsters contract, which states that the company agrees to “offer part-time employees the opportunity to fill at least twenty-two thousand five hundred (22,500) permanent full-time job openings” and “create at least seventy-five hundred (7,500) new full-time jobs from existing part-time jobs.”
Such statements are utterly hypocritical because the Teamsters deliberately concealed the massive restructuring in order to pass the contract; only weeks later, UPS began laying people off while the Teamsters officials have maintained almost total silence.
3. Australia: Allegations of abuse in childcare centres expose deep systemic crisis
On July 1, Victoria Police, in Australia’s second most populous state, publicly revealed that a 26-year-old childcare worker, Joshua Dale Brown, had been charged with over 70 offenses related to the alleged sexual abuse of eight children.
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The revelations have produced horror and panic not only for families with children in childcare facilities in Victoria but throughout the country. No explanations have been offered to the affected families as to how, over a ten-month period, the conditions existed for such alleged abuses to be carried out.
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Brown’s alleged offending would constitute criminal and anti-social behavior of a pathological character. But the conditions where it could occur, without detection for an extended period of time, are clear.
The privatization of childcare, an industry that has experienced burgeoning growth over the past decade, means profit, not childcare, is primary. Families are compelled to place their babies and children into childcare because women must return to work earlier and earlier in a child’s life, as families cannot survive on one wage.
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As Professor Gabrielle Meagher of Macquarie University told ABC-TV’s “Four Corners” on March 17 this year, “Real estate brokers, property developers, investment bankers are looking to make big money in the childcare sector... The system is underpinned by a secure and growing stream of government funding.”
Private equity firms are major players, acquiring centers, slashing costs, boosting “occupancy” and flipping them for profit. A former manager, Letiha Loveday, reported being pressured to understaff centers, receiving financial incentives to meet wage, occupancy and profit targets. “I would have to do four or five jobs at once,” she said, “like cooking while supervising children.”
The consequences are dire. In 2024 alone, 26,000 incidents were reported in Australian child care centers—a 27 percent increase in three years. At least seven children a day are going missing, are not accounted for or are locked out of childcare centers—a 49 percent rise over the same period. Over 3,000 toddlers and babies are hospitalized annually due to injuries sustained in care.
4. US Secretary of State fobs off concerns in Asia over Trump tariffs
All ASEAN members, except Singapore, have now been notified and will be impacted by some of the highest tariffs in the world. Most are heavily dependent on exports to the United States. Some, including Indonesia and Malaysia, are engaged in negotiations with the US to reach a deal. However, with a little over a fortnight to go, only two such agreements have been reached—with Britain and Vietnam.
These agreements make clear that the Trump administration is not only demanding economic concessions. It is pushing for far closer alignment with the US as its preparations for war with China accelerate. The tentative deal with Vietnam involves two tariff levels on its exports to the US—20 percent broadly on exports to the US, but 40 percent on items judged by Washington to be transhipments from China.
5. Detainees and legislators report inhumane conditions at Florida concentration camp in Everglades
The concentration camp, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Trump and his fascist allies, was hastily constructed on a rarely used airport in the Big Cypress Swamp. In hailing the opening of the concentration camp earlier this month, Trump threatened to fill it up not only with undocumented immigrants but also American citizens. “I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too,” he said. “You want to know the truth. So maybe that will be the next job.”
6. Texas halts flood catastrophe search efforts as new, life-threatening weather event approaches
On Sunday morning, the immediate suspension of all search and recovery missions along the Guadalupe River and surrounding areas in Central Texas was implemented. The decision was made in response to urgent warnings from meteorologists and local authorities about the imminent threat posed by renewed storms.
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Meanwhile, the deaths of so many people in the Texas flood have exposed the fact that authorities approved the construction by the for-profit Christian Camp Mystic of new buildings in the river’s “floodway.” A report in the New York Times on Saturday said that, during a $5 million construction plan to “overhaul and expand” the camp, “no effort was made to relocate the most at-risk cabins away from the river.
Voting begins today, Monday, for 9,000 blue-collar municipal workers on a tentative agreement announced between the union, AFSCME District Council 33, and the city of Philadelphia. Voting also continues over whether to authorize strike action for 3,000 of the city’s white collar workers. The latter are members of AFSCME District Council 47, the city’s second municipal union.
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight-day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in nearly 40 years. The strike was shut down, however, because it threatened to escape the union leaders’ control and damage their relationship with the Democratic Party-controlled city government.
In response, striking city workers organized the Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee, which denounced the unilateral ending of the strike and AFSCME’s complete surrender to the city. The committee condemned the decision to end the strike without input from the membership, a violation of union members’ rights: “The strike must be renewed immediately, and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.”
8. “The last summer of peace”: Imperialist powers rearm for global war
“Perhaps this is the last summer of peace,” said right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel in a television appearance in March, which is currently the subject of much media commentary in Germany.
Neitzel made this statement not as a warning of a catastrophe to be averted, but as a militarist argument for an acceleration of German rearmament, particularly in preparation for war with Russia.
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Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, Neitzel’s declaration of the “last summer of peace” echoes the tone of the imperialist agitation that preceded the First and Second World Wars. German General Friedrich von Bernhardi’s infamous 1911 treatise Germany and the Next War argued that war was “a biological necessity” and the motor of human progress. According to Bernhardi, war in Europe was “inevitable.”
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Across the Atlantic, in the cockpit of imperialist war planning, the United States under Trump is making increasingly direct plans for war in the Pacific, targeting China, even as it escalates war throughout the Middle East and recently announced plans for new armaments to Ukraine.
Over the weekend, the Financial Times reported that the Pentagon has formally demanded that Japan and Australia make statements pledging to go to war with China alongside the United States over Taiwan. “Concrete operational planning and exercises that have direct application to a Taiwan contingency are moving forward with Japan and Australia,” one official told the FT.
9. Southern California UFCW forces sellout deal on grocery workers through sham vote
On Friday, July 11, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) concluded a sham ratification vote on a sellout contract covering 45,000 Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions grocery workers who had voted overwhelmingly for a strike in Southern California. One local announced ratification votes between 81 and 85 percent in favor (San Diego), but the union released no further details, including the total number of ballots cast.
This vote—lacking transparency, oversight and genuine worker participation—was used to prevent a strike and ram through an agreement that enshrines poverty wages, opens the door to job cuts through automation, and offers meager “benefits” that do nothing to offset the rising cost of living in one of the most expensive regions in the country.
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This betrayal is not an isolated event. In recent days alone, the UFCW bureaucracy sabotaged the Safeway strike in Colorado and announced a separate deal at King Soopers. In Indianapolis, Kroger workers are demanding strike action after rejecting a similar sellout agreement from the union. Instead of uniting these struggles and calling for a nationwide strike to demand real raises, safe staffing and protection against automation, the UFCW is working overtime to isolate, divide and demoralize its members.
This is especially outrageous given the scale of the crisis facing the working class, spearheaded by the Trump administration’s reactionary “Big Beautiful Bill” but carried out by Democrats at the local level in major cities across the US. Los Angeles recently declared a “fiscal emergency” and laid off hundreds of city workers as a down payment to close a $1 billion shortfall; the recent strike by Philadelphia city workers took place amid “doomsday” budgeting for the city’s transit system and deep cuts to education.
These cuts will hit every section of the working class. Grocery workers will see their healthcare costs soar. Immigrant workers will be targeted by raids and deportations. Food insecurity and poverty will skyrocket. All while corporations like Kroger post record profits.
The decision by the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) administration to host President Trump for an “Energy and Innovation” conference on July 15 lend credibility to Trump’s attacks on universities, students and science as he extends his efforts to establish a dictatorship in America.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has conducted a non-stop attack on academic freedom: cutting research grants, deporting students and attacking free speech, all while cutting social programs, attacking the working class and escalating war.
At universities across the country, Trump is carrying through a fascist program of ideological control modeled on the Gleichschaltung (“synchronization”) carried out by the Nazis to subordinate all aspects of German society to their totalitarian control.
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The “Energy and Innovation Summit” is being convened by Republican Senator David McCormick, and its main theme will be on the “convergence of AI and energy,” which will have “profound implications for economic competitiveness, national security and global leadership,” according to the official press release from the university. In other words, the ruling class wants to use the latest developments in science and technology to maintain its global position vis-à-vis its rivals, chiefly China.
The main subject of the summit is energy policy. Trump rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is a worsening threat to humanity and is due to human actions. In his first term, he rolled back environmental regulations, such as the Clean Power Plan, which limited power plant pollution.
His energy slogan for his second term is “drill baby drill,” which means huge tax incentives for fossil fuel energy as he cuts all funding for climate research and solar and wind energy projects.
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By hosting Trump, the CMU administration is ingratiating itself to the would-be dictator and declaring its fealty. This should not be surprising given the university’s already deep connections to the state apparatus.
At $3 billion, CMU receives more Department of Defense funding for research than most small private universities. This research funds a variety of contracts and grants, most of them going towards AI and drone projects. The university also has longstanding ties to aircraft manufacturer and defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which has provided F-35 fighter jets to the US and Israeli armed forces.
11. New South Korean president continues war planning with US, Japan
Military leaders from South Korea, Japan, and the US met in Seoul last Friday to coordinate military preparations in the accelerating build-up to war against China. It was the first such high-level meeting under new South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who is following the same militarist agenda as his right-wing predecessor, who was impeached and removed from office after a failed military coup attempt last year.
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At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in May, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Beijing of preparing to invade Taiwan by 2027. He demanded that allies in the Asia-Pacific raise military spending to 5 percent of GDP, an issue that was no doubt discussed again last Friday.
For Seoul, this means more than doubling military spending from its current rate of 2.3 percent this year, at a time when the economy is stagnating. Japan has already been in the process of doubling its own military spending to 2 percent GDP by 2027, but for now has rejected further increases.
Far from pursuing peace, US imperialism is plunging towards global conflict, waging war against Russia in Ukraine and backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and expanding war throughout the Middle East. Friday’s meeting took place only three weeks after Washington carried out the illegal bombing of Iran under the phony claims that Tehran was building a nuclear weapon and supposedly “threatened” the region.
12. Students and academics protest massive cuts at Berlin universities
German universities are facing the biggest austerity program of the postwar era. State governments in Berlin and other Länder (federal states) plan to slash millions from research, teaching and infrastructure.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) is calling for opposition to these austerity measures and linking that resistance to the fight against war‑driven rearmament and the increasing militarization of universities and schools. The federal government intends to fund its vast €1 trillion war budget through dramatic cuts in science and education.
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This generalized attack on science and education—to fund weapons and tanks for imperialist wars—exposes the decay of this society. Capitalism is on its deathbed. It must be overthrown, and the big corporations and banks must be expropriated so that the billions in profits can be invested in research and education in the interests of society, creating a world‑class system accessible to all. Support this struggle and join the IYSSE!
13. Peru’s far right rams through amnesty for human rights violators
Peru’s far-right forces, through their representatives in the totally discredited Congress and their puppet President Dina Boluarte, are in the final stages of implementing a legal framework for granting total amnesty for human rights violators and breaking from the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS).
The IAHRS is the legal body responsible for human rights within the Organization of American States (OAS), to which Peru and all South American countries belong. To date, only the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, the latter of which the Peruvian far right denounces as a dictatorship, have effectively separated from the IAHRS.
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The law has provoked condemnation and outrage from lawyers, human rights organizations and representatives of victims, who rightly denounce the law as an open door to police state impunity. This was confirmed just days after the law came into effect when three members of the former paramilitary group Colina requested to invoke the new law to apply the new statute of limitations on their convictions.
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Boluarte’s sympathy for the impunity laws enacted by Congress are no doubt driven by her own fears of facing prosecution once she leaves office for crimes against humanity for the bloody repression she oversaw as the regime sought to assure international capitalism that it had the nation under control.
Boluarte and the far-right factions with which she is aligned have implemented the most reactionary policies and laws since the fall of the Fujimori regime, of which the impunity laws are one of the most eagerly awaited and planned packages.
Currently, Boluarte, with a 3 percent approval rating, and Congress, with a 2 percent approval rating, are the most unpopular president and Congress in the world.
On July 8, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), just two days before it was set to occur. The move has raised alarm among healthcare professionals and organizations, who see it as possible political interference with the independent panel responsible for evidence-based preventive care guidelines. Many worry this signals a broader effort to dismantle the USPSTF, echoing Kennedy’s earlier overhaul of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
In response to these developments, a coalition of 104 medical and public health organizations penned an urgent letter to congressional leaders on July 9, 2025, expressing their deep concerns about the conduct of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its potential attacks on public health institutions.
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The USPSTF is an independent panel of 16 volunteer health experts who evaluate scientific evidence on preventive health services—such as screenings, counseling, and medications. Their core mission is to recommend which services help people stay healthy and detect diseases early. What sets the Task Force apart is its exclusive reliance on rigorous scientific evidence, intentionally excluding cost considerations to focus solely on health outcomes. This commitment has made it a trusted source for clinicians and policymakers alike.
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Despite its well-established role, the USPSTF faces challenges, including potential political interference that could undermine its scientific independence and impact patient access to no-cost preventive services.
Goldin, the recipient of this year’s Kering’s Women in Motion award, took the stage at the open-air Théâtre Antique, a Roman theater built during the reign of Augustus Caesar (27BC-14AD), for a discussion with French novelist Édouard Louis.
Louis read their statement, later posted on Instagram, which explained
We talk with friends, we say this is horrible, and we think it’s enough, but this is not enough. We watch children dying on Instagram, and we say, it’s horrible, and we think it’s enough, but it’s not enough. Don’t clap at what we say, it’s too easy. Our own field has betrayed us, the world of culture has been participating in the silence. Who could have imagined that we could not express our opinions? Hundreds of artists, writers and teachers have had shows, talks, conferences, canceled because they refused to remain silent. Culture has become complicit.
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Referring to her own Jewish background, Goldin told the packed audience at the Berlin event, “My grandparents escaped pogroms in Russia. I was brought up knowing about the Nazi Holocaust. What I see in Gaza reminds me of the pogroms that my grandparents escaped.”
She denounced the German authorities for their suppression of criticism of Israel and its murderous policies. The artist noted that “the ICC [International Criminal Court] is talking about genocide. The UN is talking about genocide. Even the Pope is talking about genocide.” In Germany, however, anyone who spoke this truth, whether Palestinian, Jew or German, faced cancellation. “Yet we’re not supposed to talk about this as genocide. Are you afraid to hear this, Germany?” Goldin demanded to know.
On this occasion too, observing that anti-Zionism “had nothing to do with antisemitism,” Goldin said to cheers, that the campaign to conflate the terms increasingly endangered Jews who had previously regarded Germany as a refuge from antisemitism.
16. Trump’s tariff war threatens Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and copper exports
Alongside Washington’s latest measures directed against Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asian countries, Canada and Brazil are two industrial sector tariffs that have serious implications for Australia—200 percent on pharmaceuticals and 50 percent on copper.
Like other post-World War II allies, Australia is not being exempted from the potentially catastrophic impact of the Trump White House’s aggressive drive to restore the global hegemony that US imperialism asserted after the last world war.
17. Kentucky turns back the clock on workplace safety
In a brazen attack on the working class, two new Kentucky state laws took effect at the end of June, one drastically undermining workplace safety for all workers, the other targeting what was once the state’s largest and most dangerous industry, coal mining.
The Republican-controlled state legislature passed both bills at the end of March, and they took effect after 90 days without any serious opposition from either Democratic Governor Andy Beshear or the state AFL-CIO and other unions.
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This attack on workers’ safety demonstrates the significance of the independent investigation initiated by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) into the death of 63-year-old Ronald Adams Sr., a Stellantis worker at the company’s Dundee, Michigan engine plant.
Adams was a machine repairman, a husband, father, and grandfather, highly skilled and respected by his coworkers. He was crushed on April 7, 2025, when an overhead gantry lifting engine blocks engaged, pinning him to the conveyor.
Since his death, the Adams family has not received any information from the United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) or Stellantis.
18. Trump bans undocumented children from Head Start
On Thursday, July 10, the Trump administration announced a new Health and Human Services (HHS) rule banning the enrollment of undocumented children in Head Start, the federally funded early childhood program. The attack on three- and four-year-old children and their right to free public education is part of a multi-agency effort to strip immigrants of all federally funded social services.
While Head Start does not collect information on citizenship and the exact number of children affected is not known, there are at least 600,000 K-12 undocumented students in the US. A significant subset of these is likely to be of preschool age and eligible for Head Start.
The Trump administration’s new rules will also make undocumented young people ineligible for certain high school, community college dual enrollment opportunities, and Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses. Recent figures suggest there are around 408,000 undocumented students in higher education, many participating in dual enrollment or CTE.
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The National Head Start Association issued a statement of “alarm” in response. “This decision undermines the fundamental commitment that the country has made to children and disregards decades of evidence that Head Start is essential to our collective future,” said Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the National Head Start Association. “Head Start programs strive to make every child feel welcome, safe, and supported, and reject the characterization of any child as ‘illegal.’”
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The 1982 landmark Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe established the right of all children to free public education regardless of immigration status based on the “equal protection clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment. Trump is now explicitly narrowing the established interpretation of Plyler, coupled with other vicious attacks on immigrant children, including authorizing ICE arrests at schools and withholding billions of dollars earmarked for English Language Learning and migrant education services.
There is little doubt that the administration sees the current ban as a stepping stone to a Supreme Court challenge of Plyler itself, with the aim of ending access to public school for all undocumented children.
Normally, rule changes based on a new interpretation of the law are published in the Federal Registry, allowing 30 days for public comment. The Trump administration, instead, arbitrarily announced the rule change via a news release.
19. UK Labour government defense review calls for schools to support “nation’s readiness for war”
The UK Labour government’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) “Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad” has broad implications for education. The SDR aims to create new pathways between youth and the armed forces and to develop existing avenues to ensure increased recruitment for the war agenda of British imperialism.
Due to cuts to the armed forces budget following the end of the Cold War with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the number of full-time trained soldiers stands at 70,860. Labour plans to increase this to 73,000 but is struggling to meet even this target.
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In its recommendations, the SDR suggests young people be enticed into the armed forces via the cadets, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) engagement and outreach, and early recruitment and awareness initiatives.
The review pinpoints the importance of schools as hosts for cadet programs and sites for encouraging children to learn about the military. It argues that the Ministry of Defense should “Work with the Department for Education to develop understanding of the Armed Forces among young people in schools”.
20. Erdoğan calls for “Turkish-Kurdish-Arab” alliance, as PKK holds disarmament ceremony in Iraq
The process of the PKK laying down arms began on October 22 with a call by Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the fascist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and an ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Bahçeli declared that Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK, could speak in parliament and be released if he disbanded his organization.
After negotiating with a delegation from the Kurdish nationalist Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Öcalan called on the PKK to disarm and disband on February 27. In his letter, Öcalan declared his party’s historical and political bankruptcy and proposed “integration with the state.” At a congress held on May 5-7, the PKK responded to this call by deciding to dissolve itself and end the armed struggle.
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In his speech on Saturday, President Erdoğan confirmed the World Socialist Web Site’s analysis that the deepening imperialist war of redivison in the Middle East and the Turkish bourgeoisie’s expansionist ambitions are behind the deal with the PKK.
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The Turkish bourgeoisie is preparing to lay claim to Syria, Iraq, and the wider region by assuming the patronage of the Kurds and Arabs amid the imperialist war, which aims to ensure the total domination of the US, together with Israel, over the Middle East, and to redraw the maps.
Notably, the Persians, the dominant ethnic group in Iran which the US sees as an obstacle to its domination in the Middle East, are not included in Erdoğan’s “Muslim alliance” even though they are Muslims. Erdoğan’s statement came only one month after Turkey’s allies, the US and Israel, militarily attacked Iran.
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An accomplice to US and Israeli crimes, Ankara is also engaged in a serious competition for regional hegemony with Tel Aviv. Erdoğan claimed that Israel’s genocide in Gaza, aided by Ankara with war material supplies, oil shipments and intelligence coming from bases in Turkey, was possible because “Turks, Kurds and Arabs cannot come together and form an alliance as they have done throughout history.” In this way, he deliberately misrepresented the role of the Turkish and Arab regimes and the Kurdish nationalist movement, each of which is a collaborator of US-NATO imperialism behind Israel.
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A democratic solution to the Kurdish question, as well as peace in the Middle East and around the world, requires the unification and mobilization of workers of all nationalities and ethnicities with the aim of overthrowing imperialism and the capitalist nation-state system and building workers’ power in the struggle for socialism in the Middle East and around the world. This is the perspective for which the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu and the ICFI are fighting.
21. More than 80 UK protesters arrested, former head of the army speaks of “proxies”
This weekend, another 80-plus people were arrested on the streets of London, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Derry for expressing support for the direct action protest group Palestine Action.
Roughly 300 police were mobilized in London, arresting 46 people peacefully gathered around statues of Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, holding signs reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
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There is massive opposition to these police state-measures, being spearheaded by the proscription of Palestine Action. But for this sentiment to take root in the broadest possible sections of the working class, and to find organized form in a mass movement, the full implications of these attacks must be made widely known.
All workers are in the firing line of the assault on democratic rights because they are all in the literal firing line of the wars being actively planned for by British imperialism—whether directly, or indirectly though savage cuts to social spending to pay for the military and the outlawing of strikes on “national security” grounds.
Combating this danger means mobilizing the working class, the decisive social force in capitalist society, to defend the first targets of Starmer’s authoritarianism as part of a broader socialist, anti-war movement.
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