Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Raymond Jensen suspended from UAW, barred from ever running for office over threat to Will Lehman
Raymond L. Jensen Jr., a paid organizer for the United Auto Workers (UAW) International, was stripped of his membership for two years and barred for life from union office on August 4, after the court-appointed Monitor ruled that his Facebook post threatening the life of socialist UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman broke federal election rules. The sanctions are without precedent in the UAW’s history and represent a significant political victory for the working class.
2. Michigan primary shows continued shift to the left in US
The victory of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic Senate nomination is a significant repudiation of the pro-Israel policy of the Democratic Party leadership, which has refused to condemn the Gaza genocide.
3. European wildfires continue, with record land burned and nuclear plants on verge of shutdown
Europe entered August with severe wildfires burning in Greece, France, Spain and Turkey, hundreds more scattered fires underway in Romania, and a drought and fire crisis threatening nuclear power provision in Britain, Hungary and Romania.
4. One person killed as Sri Lankan military and police suppress prison protest
The violent operation against unarmed inmates at Mahara Prison follows the massacre of prisoners at Negombo Prison last month.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has boasted that the federal Liberal government played a leading role in bringing a quick end to the WestJet flight attendants’ strike. It did so using scarcely veiled threats that the government would otherwise illegalize the strike and impose binding arbitration.
6. Australian military think tank strategises building “social license” for war
The ASPI defense conference was part of a campaign to prepare the ground for conscription in Australia—to solve the ruling class’s “workforce” crisis by compelling a generation of workers and youth into war.
7. Taiwan launches massive Han Kuang war games
Plans for war are ultimately based in Washington, which is seeking to goad Beijing into a conflict with the aid of sections of the Taiwanese ruling class.
8. What drove the surge of Moroccan migrants to Ceuta?
Official statistics capture only a partial picture of the economically and socially stultifying life of the almost 40 million people ruled by King Mohammed VI and a narrow financial elite.
9. Cost of living rises in New Zealand
With annual inflation at 4.1 percent and increased unemployment, working-class households are sinking into debt and child poverty is rising.
10. European Union intensifies its fascist migration policies in wake of Ceuta
The refugee tragedy in Ceuta has starkly illustrated how the European Union (EU) is putting the far right’s inhumane migration policy into practice and systematically intensifying it.
11. Manhattan UPS workers sleep in cafeteria, wander streets overnight under split-shift regime
UPS has eliminated the Midnight shift at its Manhattan hub, forcing full-time workers onto split shifts with five to six unpaid hours between them—too short for many to travel home and sleep. Workers sleep in the cafeteria, wander the streets and, in some cases, remain cut off from their families, while Teamsters officials reject collective action against the restructuring.
12. Socialism instead of war! — Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei approved for Berlin state elections
With the SGP on the ballot, there is a party that openly opposes the war policy of all the establishment parties and fights for a socialist perspective that places the needs of the population above the profits of the super-rich.
13. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The fight for the Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist's freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide, dictatorship and fascism.
