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The same contradictions driving the ruling class to war are driving workers into struggle, and the past three months have seen a powerful growth of the class struggle.

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Consumer price inflation jumped to 4.2 percent in May, according to data released Wednesday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The annual inflation rate has shot up from 2.4 percent in February, before the US war against Iran, to 3.3 percent in March, 3.8 percent in

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The new escalation reflects the failure of Trump to achieve any of his objectives in the war.

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The United States bombed Iran for a second consecutive day Wednesday, with the US military announcing that it had begun striking “multiple targets” in Iran at 5:15 p.m. Eastern time. CBS News reported Wednesday that two US officials said the targets included ammunition depots,

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The Philippine ruling class as a whole is rife with corruption and this extends into dangerous cost-cutting in construction while consciously ignoring poor existing safety conditions in order to boost the profits of big business.

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A deadly earthquake struck off the southern coast of the Philippines on Monday morning, causing the deaths of at least 46 people and injuring nearly 500 more. As of Wednesday evening, at least 17 people remain missing, meaning the death toll could rise. Hundreds of aftershocks

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The House of Representatives passed the “Secure America Act” on Tuesday, allocating an additional $70 billion to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and funding the agencies through the remainder of Trump’s second term. Trump signed the bill into law Wednesday morning. The House vote was 214-212, along party lines, with every Democrat voting against the measure. The Senate passed the bill last week, also along party lines. The bill provides $38 billion to ICE, $26 billion to Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection, and another $6 billion to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. With Trump’s signature, the administration has now allocated roughly $246 billion to ICE and Border Patrol since returning to the White House. Speaking at the White House before signing the bill, Trump praised the “heroes of ICE and Border Patrol” and boasted that the legislation fully funds the Department of Homeland Security “through the end of my term, so we won’t have that to be talking about any longer.” After months of mass protests, appeals to Congress and denunciations of ICE violence, the administration has secured a massive increase in funding for the same agencies responsible for the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The bill contains no restrictions on their operations. There is no requirement that ICE or CBP agents use judicial warrants; no prohibition on masked agents; no end to roving patrols; and no restriction on the deployment of immigration police in airports, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods and public spaces. The passage of the bill exposes, once again, the fraud of the Democratic Party’s posture as an opponent of Trump’s mass deportation regime. While Democrats voted “no” on the final bill, they had ensured its passage beforehand, making possible the last act in a phony charade. As the World Socialist Web Site explained last week, the Democrats’ opposition was a carefully staged maneuver. Earlier this year, they agreed to separate funding for ICE and Border Patrol from the broader Department of Homeland Security funding bill. This allowed them to vote for the rest of DHS funding, posture as opponents of the most openly fascistic elements of Trump’s immigration program, and then leave Republicans free to pass the ICE and CBP money through the budget reconciliation process without formal Democratic support. In other words, the Democrats preserved their ability to posture before the public while guaranteeing that the immigration Gestapo would receive the funding demanded by Trump and the ruling class. Following the House vote, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries bemoaned the fact that Trump had “promised America that he would target violent felons who are here illegally,” but that instead “taxpayer dollars are being used by ICE and his violent mass deportation machine to target and brutalize American citizens, in some cases, killing them.” Jeffries’ statement sums up the reactionary framework of the Democratic Party. His criticism is not that Trump is carrying out mass deportations, building concentration camps and deploying masked federal agents across the country. Rather, he accepts the premise that immigrants previously convicted of felonies should be hunted down and deported. This itself is a fraud, since the Democratic Party when it is in power has enormously expanded the deportation of all immigrants, and state government under Democratic Party control have deployed the police to assist ICE and attack protesters. Illinois Democratic Representative Delia C. Ramirez centered her criticism on the failure to proceed in a bipartisan way. Speaking to 535 News, Ramirez said, “How dangerous it was that yesterday we passed a bill to fund ICE and CBP for the next three years without any necessity to come before the committees of jurisdiction for the oversight work necessary in order to be able to release the money.” “Yesterday’s vote, in fact, made it possible that whether the Republicans are in the majority or the minority they don’t have to come before us anymore, at least for three years,” she added. Ramirez’s use of the word “we” was more revealing than she intended. The Democrats are not helpless bystanders. They are participants in the same state apparatus, defenders of the same capitalist order and collaborators in the strengthening of the police-state machinery now being placed in Trump’s hands. Since Trump’s return to the White House, millions have taken part in “No Kings” demonstrations and the mass protests in Minnesota in response to the killing of Good and Pretti. There have been protests outside for-profit immigrant detention centers in New Jersey, Texas, Illinois and California, and walkouts by students across the country against the mass deportation operation. Yet this mass opposition finds no expression in Washington. The reason is that the Democrats are not an opposition party. They are collaborators in Trump’s and the ruling class’s drive to establish a presidential dictatorship. The passage of the Secure America Act underscores that the fight to free immigrants, stop the construction of a nationwide network of concentration camps, and abolish the immigration Gestapo cannot be left in the hands of the Democratic Party. Workers need their own party and organizations, grounded in an internationalist and socialist program, which recognizes the right of all human beings to live, labor and love wherever they choose, regardless of immigration status. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The Trump administration escalated its political persecution of anti-war protesters on Wednesday, as the FBI and federal law enforcement agencies raided homes across Southeast Michigan and unsealed a 63-page indictment charging eight individuals associated with pro-Palestinian activism at the University of Michigan (U-Mich) in Ann Arbor. Seven of those indicted were arrested in the raids. The indictment, secretly filed on May 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and unsealed Wednesday morning, names: ·         Zainab Hakim, 23, of Canton Township ·         Amatullah Hakim, 21, of Ann Arbor ·         Paige Feyock, 26, of Ann Arbor ·         Ahmet Korkaya, 28, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin ·         Jonathan Zou, 22, of Ann Arbor ·         Alexander Sepulveda, 23, of Chicago ·         Miriam Odeh, 24, of Dearborn ·         Colin Weger, 24, of Ann Arbor Seven of the eight were arrested, six of whom appeared in federal court in Detroit on Wednesday. One person was arrested in Wisconsin, while another remained out of custody. A federal magistrate judge ordered that the defendants be held by U.S. Marshals until a 1:00 p.m. Friday detention hearing. Some 40 people demonstrated outside of the federal courthouse in Detroit on Wednesday to protest the crackdown on anti-genocide activists and the widening assault on democratic rights. The Detroit Free Press reported one of the protesters, James Johnson of Detroit, a former member of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), the union that covers graduate student workers at U-Mich, as saying: “I’m sick of the repression of anti-war voices. I’m sick of the black bagging of political protesters by our government.” The indictment alleges the defendants and unindicted co-conspirators, most of whom studied or worked at U-Mich, used encrypted messages, social media and collaboration with partners overseas to research, target and attack alleged victims, subsequently publicizing their activities on social media. In fact, the allegations involve non-violent acts of vandalism carried out to protest the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has directly to date killed 72,971 people, according to official figures, including tens of thousands of women and children. The actual number of civilian deaths in Gaza is likely far higher, when deaths due to malnutrition, lack of health care and lack of housing are taken into account. An estimated 173,012 people have been injured. The charges carry onerous federal penalties. The indictment charges members of the group with conspiracy to transmit threats to interstate and foreign commerce, a crime punishable by up to five years in federal prison. Zainab Hakim and Paige Feyock face the most serious charges, witness intimidation, a 20-year felony. The indictment also charges Alexander Sepulveda with destruction of property, which carries a five-year sentence. U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon Jr. framed the prosecutions in nakedly political terms, declaring: “In America, we rule by law not by fear. These alleged threats and attempts to terrorize government officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation are anti-American. We will counter intimidation with justice.” FBI Director Kash Patel amplified the announcement on social media, describing the arrests as targeting individuals who allegedly used “violent threats and attacks” following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. The political context: Repression of anti-genocide protest The government’s framing cannot be separated from its broader political context. The indictment notes that defendants were motivated by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and the ensuing war in Gaza—a conflict that Amnesty International and a United Nations independent commission have since characterized as a genocide perpetrated by Israel. The University of Michigan has been a focal point of the anti-war movement since October 2023. Students have repeatedly demanded that the university divest its endowment from companies tied to Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The university has refused all such demands. The specific incidents cited in the indictment span from October 2023 through May 2024 and involve acts of vandalism, including the placement of broken dolls on the lawn of a university board member, spray-painting at the home of U-Mich Provost Laurie McCauley, and the throwing of jars containing a noxious substance into a private residence. The indictment also describes vandalism targeting the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit in Bloomfield Hills. The indictment accuses defendants of marking targets with symbols associated with Hamas, including red inverted triangles and red handprints, and of using the internet and social media to amplify threats. It links their activities to pro-Palestinian campus groups, including the TAHRIR Coalition and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), the U-Mich chapter of Justice in Palestine. The University banned SAFE last year in retaliation for anti-genocide protests, including an encampment that was broken up by police in 2024. Civil liberties organizations and activists say the charges represent a dangerous conflation of political protest with terrorism. The TAHRIR Coalition stated that the raids targeted pro-Palestinian protesters who participated in campus activism. Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan (CAIR-M) Executive Director Dawud Walid condemned the raids, stating: We call into question the aggressive nature of this morning’s raids of activists’ homes, which follows the recent misuse of prosecutorial power in Michigan and throughout our country against pro-Palestinian activists. In any other context, such minor infractions would be handled by local law enforcement or referred to local, elected prosecutors—not escalated to federal intervention. The GEO issued a statement declaring: “We strongly condemn the actions taken today and all past and present repression of political activism.” It continued: “We urge University of Michigan administrators, the Regents of the University of Michigan, and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to end their campaign against students and stop putting academic graduate workers in harm’s way.” A campaign of escalating repression Wednesday’s indictments are the culmination of a years-long campaign to suppress anti-war dissent at U-Mich that has enlisted local, state and federal authorities. This assault on political speech and democratic rights has been entirely bipartisan. The Democratic Party administration of Joseph Biden, which armed and politically supported the Israeli genocide in Gaza, oversaw a nationwide crackdown against pro-Palestinian protests. It joined with the Republicans in smearing anti-genocide activists as antisemites, ignoring the fact that large numbers of those protesting were Jewish. The University of Michigan Board of Regents, which has pushed for the repression, is largely composed of Democratic Party supporters. At the same time, U-Mich has collaborated in a government witch-hunt against Chinese researchers at the university, which has seen the arrest, jailing and deportation of scholars on trumped-up charges of smuggling toxic substances into the US. This campaign led to the suicide in May of post-doctoral research scientist Danhao Wang. In April 2025, FBI agents and local police first raided homes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Canton, seizing electronic devices from individuals associated with pro-Palestinian organizing. The raids were overseen by Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat. At the time, rights groups condemned the raids, with CAIR asserting that “peaceful dissent is not a crime.” In May 2024, following a large campus demonstration, several students were suspended from university jobs, and criminal felony charges were filed against multiple activists linked to protests and encampments. Attorney General Nessel ultimately dropped those felony charges in May 2025. However, the university responded by intensifying internal disciplinary measures. In June and July 2025, the Office of Student Conflict Resolution charged 11 current and former students with violations stemming from protest activities, with possible sanctions, including suspension, expulsion and permanent bans from campus facilities. The levying of federal charges under the Trump Justice Department marks a further escalation. What state authorities once deemed insufficiently evidenced to prosecute is now being repackaged as a federal conspiracy, with the full weight of the FBI and the Justice Department brought to bear against student activists. Meanwhile, fascist MAGA activists are being shielded by the Trump administration and the courts. On Tuesday, one day before the FBI raids, a three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the conviction of Joseph Morrison, a member of the Wolverine Watchmen militia, who is serving a prison sentence in connection with a plot to kidnap and possibly kill Governor Gretchen Whitmer during the 2020 election season. The broader assault on democratic rights The U-Mich prosecutions are part of a nationwide pattern. Since 2023, hundreds of students and faculty across the country have been arrested, suspended, expelled or placed on federal watchlists for participating in demonstrations against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has filed a lawsuit challenging what it characterizes as the University of Michigan’s repressive policies toward pro-Palestinian protesters, suing on behalf of five people who received trespass bans following protest activities. The charges unsealed Wednesday send an unmistakable message: Those who organize, protest and agitate against US support for the Israeli government’s operations in Gaza will face the full punitive apparatus of the state. The working class must unequivocally oppose this assault on democratic rights. Whatever one’s assessment of the specific tactics alleged in the indictment, the deployment of the FBI, federal grand juries and sweeping conspiracy charges against anti-war activists is a blow against the democratic rights of the entire working population. The same legal machinery being used against pro-Palestinian students today will be used against striking workers, socialist organizers and all those who challenge the interests of the capitalist class tomorrow. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demand the immediate dropping of all charges against the University of Michigan Eight and an end to the persecution of anti-war protesters nationwide. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

A “significant number” of Israeli airstrikes against Iran were launched from Jordanian airspace, a military intelligence source revealed to Fars News Agency on 9 June. The security source also said that Jordanian military helicopters assisted Israel by intercepting Iranian drones and missiles headed toward Israeli territory. The coordination reportedly included operational and intelligence support from several western European nations operating within Jordan. According to the source, Israeli jets utilized long-range air-to-surface munitions for these attacks in response to Iran’s recent rapid upgrades to its radar and air defense systems. The report follows Iranian drone and missile strikes on Sunday and Monday targeting seven Israeli military and economic centers in response to repeated ceasefire violations across Lebanon. The security source further asserted that the volume of successful Iranian missile impacts was “unprecedented,” despite the “extensive censorship” by Israeli authorities. Jordan had been serving as a “key hub” for US military operations since before the war on Iran was launched, according to earlier reports by the New York Times (NYT). Satellite images taken just days before the attacks on Iran were launched on 28 February showed a massive increase in the number of US warplanes, including F-35 fighter jets, as well as dozens of cargo planes, at the Muwaffaq Salti Base in central Jordan. Satellite imagery analyzed during the US-Israeli war on Iran also showed that Iranian retaliatory strikes had destroyed a THAAD missile system and an early warning radar site that had been hosted in Jordanian territory. Reports of Jordanian involvement come after earlier revelations that the UAE conducted dozens of covert airstrikes against Iran in collaboration with Israel and the US in the opening hours of the war on Iran. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), these secret operations, which continued past the April ceasefire, targeted Iranian energy infrastructure such as the Asaluyeh petrochemical complex and the Lavan island oil refinery, as well as strategic sites near the Strait of Hormuz. The outlet, however, describes the UAE strikes as “largely symbolic” compared to the over 20,000 strikes carried out by the US and Israel. The WSJ report also says that Israel also deployed Iron Dome batteries and troops to the UAE, while high-ranking Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli army commander, and the head of the Mossad, secretly visited the UAE during the war to coordinate attacks and defense strategies. In Azerbaijan, during the US-Israeli war on Iran, Israel had covertly deployed dozens of elite troops, including Mossad personnel and special operations units, to a secret base close to the Iranian border, sources told CNN on 5 June These forces conducted drone operations and intelligence-gathering to provide Israel with a strategic “perch” over northern Iran. Although Azeri officials have rejected these claims, reports suggest the operation was part of a regional network of secret sites, including locations in Somaliland, Iraq, and the UAE, initially intended for rescue missions but later expanded to extend military reach and surveillance. In Azerbaijan, during the US-Israeli war on Iran, Israel had covertly deployed dozens of elite troops, including Mossad personnel and special operations units, to a secret base close to the Iranian border, sources told CNN on 5 June These forces conducted drone operations and intelligence-gathering to provide Israel with a strategic “perch” over northern Iran. Although Azeri officials have rejected these claims, reports suggest the operation was part of a regional network of secret sites, including locations in Somaliland, Iraq, and the UAE, initially intended for rescue missions but later expanded to extend military reach and surveillance. In Azerbaijan, during the US-Israeli war on Iran, Israel had covertly deployed dozens of elite troops, including Mossad personnel and special operations units, to a secret base close to the Iranian border, sources told CNN on 5 June These forces conducted drone operations and intelligence-gathering to provide Israel with a strategic “perch” over northern Iran. Although Azeri officials have rejected these claims, reports suggest the operation was part of a regional network of secret sites, including locations in Somaliland, Iraq, and the UAE, initially intended for rescue missions but later expanded to extend military reach and surveillance. thecradle.co/articles/israe…

The best way to anticipate the future is to find out what Benjamin Netanyahu wants and then assume it's just a matter of time before Trump does it. Hard to go wrong with that method. I can't think of a time when it would have failed.

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JUST IN: Trump says Iran is "finished"

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The US is the number one enemy of the world,they either choose to fall in honor or crumble in shame!

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The guy smiling from ear to ear behind him is me 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

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jesus fucking christ

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This was Palestinian athlete Moazaz Obayat before and after 9 months of captivity in the prisons of the Zionist regime.

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President Donald Trump says he’s backing Republican incumbent Susan Collins in the Maine Senate race despite their differences, bashing her opponent, Democrat Graham Platner, as a "thug" and an "outright pig."

#PalestinianSource The first image of jailed Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has emerged, renewing concern over his prolonged detention. The first publicly circulated image of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya since his arrest by Israeli occupation forces has emerged, offering the world its first glimpse of the prominent Gaza physician after more than 17 months in detention. The image, which surfaced as legal proceedings regarding his continued imprisonment remain ongoing, shows the former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Israeli custody and has reignited international concern over his condition. For Palestinians, medical organizations, and rights advocates who have campaigned for his release since his unlawful detention in December 2024, the photograph represents the first visual confirmation of Abu Safiya since he disappeared into Israel’s prison system. The emergence of the image comes amid mounting concerns over reports that he has recently been transferred to solitary confinement. No Public Evidence Abu Safiya was detained on December 27, 2024, when Israeli forces stormed and evacuated Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. At the time, the hospital was among the last major medical facilities still functioning in northern Gaza despite months of bombardment, siege, and repeated attacks on healthcare infrastructure. The pediatrician became internationally known for refusing to leave his patients despite Israeli evacuation orders and increasingly catastrophic conditions inside the hospital. He continued working even after his teenage son Ibrahim was killed in an Israeli strike near the hospital. Following his arrest, Israeli authorities designated him an “unlawful combatant,” allowing his detention without formal charges. More than 17 months later, no public evidence has been presented against him. The release of the image coincides with growing alarm over Abu Safiya’s treatment in detention. According to Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), he was recently transferred from Ketziot prison to Ramon prison within Israel’s Ganot prison complex. Information gathered during a prison visit indicated that he was being held alone in a cramped isolation cell under harsh conditions. His lawyer, Nasser Odeh, has reported that Abu Safiya continues to suffer from chronic back pain and vision complications while being denied adequate medical treatment. Human rights groups have warned that prolonged solitary confinement could have serious physical and psychological consequences, particularly for detainees with existing medical problems. Isolation from the Outside World Additional details emerging through family members have highlighted the extent of Abu Safiya’s isolation. According to relatives, the imprisoned doctor recently asked that Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif be informed about his case and the continuing plight of Gaza’s healthcare sector. The request appeared to indicate that Abu Safiya remained unaware that Al-Sharif had been killed months earlier during the genocide. For family members, the incident illustrated how disconnected he has become from developments outside prison after more than a year and a half in detention. Human rights organizations continue to call for Abu Safiya’s immediate release, arguing that his detention reflects a broader pattern of targeting Palestinian healthcare workers during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. According to rights groups, numerous Palestinian doctors, nurses, and paramedics remain in Israeli detention. As the first image of Abu Safiya circulates worldwide, supporters hope it will draw renewed attention to the plight of the physician who became a symbol of Gaza’s devastated healthcare system and who remains imprisoned without charge more than 17 months after his arrest. palestinechronicle.com/first-image-of…

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the former director of a Gaza hospital, appeared at an Israeli Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday via video link, marking the first time he’s been seen in public since February 2025. Abu Safiya was detained by Israeli troops in December 2024 and has since been held in Israeli prisons.

Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spoke to lawmakers over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Gates said that Epstein was blackmailing him over his infidelities. Gates appears thousands of times in the Epstein Files, including photos of Gates with several women.

New video explaining how capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries. This is why the U.S. is always at war and has over 800 military bases worldwide to ensure corporations can keep extracting resources from these countries.

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Elon Musk: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism." Michael Parenti: "The Third World is not poor. It is over exploited.” Capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries. This is why the US is always at war.

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Syrian Locals Say Israeli Troops Beat Them, Ran Over Their Sheep in Quneitra Incursion IDF bulldozing agricultural lands, installing barbed-wire fence inside southwest Syria #Syria #Israel news.antiwar.com/2026/06/10/syr…

Black Alliance for Peace and Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective member, Dr. Jemima Pierre, leads a discussion on anti-imperialism and the Beautiful Game. Tune in youtube.com/watch?v=oJc-K4… #BoycottWorldCup2026 #2026WorldCup

'Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, can we get a FREE PALESTINE?' 'IT DOESN'T EXIST'

“Israeli soldiers would never shoot a child in the head, this is blood libel”

🔴The Lebanese Ministry of Heath: 3696 civilians killed and 1,413 wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd. Hundreds of children have been killed and more than 130 paramedics. Families are massacred every day. Video is from a drone strike on a vehicle in Saida today. Saida is north of the Litani river.

Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir has called for the seizure of Lebanese “women and youth” to exert pressure on Hezbollah middleeasteye.pulse.ly/l63zzpoxzu