Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Workers and youth oppose Iran war and Labor’s austerity measures at meetings in Australia and NZ
“Workers should unite to fight. Workers are oppressed, but without them, the capitalists have no wealth.”
2. Billionaire Trump backers smash up CBS “60 Minutes”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his son David, CEO of Paramount, are seeking to convert CBS into another Trump mouthpiece like Fox News.
3. New EU Return Regulation: attacks on democratic right and mass expulsions
The European Parliament and EU states have agreed a new return regulation that abolishes the fundamental right to asylum and normalises collaboration with fascist parties.
4. Likely Super El Niño will intensify climate change
Global warming is raising the probability that a Super El Niño will develop this year, resulting in widespread mixture of intense heat, drought and flooding around the world. This will have devastating impacts on billions of people.
5. UAW bureaucracy releases “highlights” of fourth sellout deal at Nexteer
Rank-and-file workers have already denounced the deal as the same contract they have already rejected three times.
6. Victorian teachers oppose Australian Education Union/Labor deal on wages and conditions
After years of mounting anger over worsening conditions and real pay cuts, and a 98 percent vote for industrial action, many educators view the agreement as another betrayal.
7. Sri Lanka receives further IMF loan installments and demands for escalating austerity
To impose the brutal measures demanded by the IMF, Sri Lanka’s government, backed by every section of the ruling elite, is preparing autocratic forms of rule.
8. Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire: The case for expropriation
Within the next 10 days, Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire, when SpaceX, the space launch monopoly he controls, carries out the largest initial public offering in history.
9. New York Democrats and Mamdani administration provide platform for Israel Day pro-genocide march
The DSA mayor did not attend the Israel Day parade, but his administration provided the permits and police protection for a march featuring Israeli officials implicated in genocide, annexation and ethnic cleansing.
10. The “Great American State Fair” debacle: Trump’s megalomania and extreme isolation
One of the centerpieces of the anniversary is a mixed martial arts cage match scheduled to take place June 14 on the South Lawn of the White House.
11. Philippine workers hit as Iran war continues
Surging fuel and fertilizer prices are leading to a food crisis in the Philippines as crop yields decline.
Almost two months on, hundreds of workers remain in jail on trumped-up charges of violence and disorderly conduct, while labour activists whom the authorities claim instigated the protests are being held without charge under the draconian National Security Act.
13. Nationwide hospital protests against planned cuts in Germany
Staff at over 50 hospitals across Germany recently protested against the government's planned cuts in the healthcare and nursing sectors, which threaten wages, working conditions and the existence of many hospitals.
14. Canadian border authorities handing refugees over to Trump’s fascist ICE thugs
Acting on the orders of the Liberal government, Canada’s border authorities are systematically handing over asylum seekers to ICE, full in the knowledge that they will be confined to concentration camp-like conditions before being expelled from the US.
15. Public Lecture: Trotsky, Stalin and the 1926 British General Strike
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,
16. United Kingdom: Unite ends Doncaster drivers' strike at First Bus based on revised pay offer
That First South Yorkshire was ultimately forced to retreat from its insistence that the 7 percent offer was "final" was due to the determination and unity of the drivers.
17. Workers and youth oppose Iran war and Labor’s austerity measures at meetings in Australia and NZ
“Workers should unite to fight. Workers are oppressed, but without them, the capitalists have no wealth.”
18. Who is prospective Labour Party leader and prime minister, Andy Burnham?—Part One
Labour is presiding over a social catastrophe, including the deepest levels of poverty in 30 years, and trailing the far-right Reform, the Conservatives and the Greens in general election polls. If he successfully becomes an MP, Burnham is expected to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership and to replace him in Downing Street.
20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
"Peace for the world! Down with war!"
