Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
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2. David Attenborough at 100, an appreciation
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
The lockout was reinforced by a major police presence, with photographs shared by workers showing a fleet of police vehicles stationed around the site.
4. European powers pledge arms to Ukraine while issuing ultimatums to Russia at London summit
The E3, represented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gathered in Downing Street and issued a joint five-point declaration.
An ongoing inquiry by the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee has documented the absence of written safety protocols, the lack of defibrillators and medical personnel, blocked cell phone signals and dangerous emergency-response failures at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center.
Carney has his eye on a far-reaching re-write of labour laws that will deeply erode what remains of federally regulated workers’ right to strike and their precarious ability to bargain independently of government interference.
7. Modern slavery in Italy: four migrant farmworkers burned alive in a minivan
The workers were massacred in Calabria by gangmasters in a system of hyper-exploitation whose conditions were created by Italy’s government and “opposition.”
8. Renegotiation of US-Mexico-Canada trade pact faces hurdles
The USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada) trade pact is due for review on July 1, with negotiations likely to run past the deadline.
9. Sri Lankan police arrest Tamil rapper under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party condemn the arrest of Sangeethsan Ganeskumar—a blatant attack on freedom of expression—and demand his immediate and unconditional release.
The DFT invited the school superintendent to the union meeting in order to stump for a millage vote, endorsing Proposal S, which will fall on Detroit renters to pay.
11. Prominent New Zealand entertainer Lynda Topp denounces government’s military budget
The speech by one of the country’s foremost entertainers fiercely denounced government cuts to the arts budget amid soaring military spending.
12. Three women dead in 25 days: Social murder in Michigan prisons
Four women have died in seven months at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where toxic mold, privatized medical neglect and bipartisan austerity have created deadly conditions.
13. Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026: Leading historian of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood, 92, a leading historian of the American Revolution, died Sunday after being struck by a car. His career spanned more than half a century, most of it at Brown University, where he trained generations of early Americanists and helped shape modern interpretations of the Revolutionary era.
14. Fired “60 Minutes” journalist reveals pro-Trump censorship at CBS News
In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, Scott Pelley details the demands by newly installed corporate bosses for a pro-Trump slant in coverage.
15. Debate blocked at Australian Education Union “briefing” on sellout deal in Victoria
At an AEU meeting, officials declared out of order a resolution opposing their agreement with the state Labor government.
16. Israel bombs Iran on the 100th day of the US-Israeli war as fighting spreads across Lebanon and Gaza
Israel bombed Central and Western Iran before dawn Monday, striking air defenses, missile launchers and a petrochemical complex used by the Revolutionary Guard, hours after Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israeli cities.
The BMA and other health unions—Unite, Unison, the GMB and the Royal College of Nursing—are suffocating a unified fightback by National Health Service workers.
A homeless Congolese man, Yves Sakila, resident in Ireland since childhood, was killed last month in Henry Street, Dublin. He had been chased and forced to the pavement by private security guards of Arnotts department store.
That the decision was ultimately taken to integrate the Socialist People’s Party and Red-Green Alliance into government, or at least some form of support for it, speaks to the recognition within the ruling class that they require a political cover to proceed with their agenda.
20. Workers Struggles: The Americas
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