<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>North America</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/region/namerica</link><description /><item><title>Workers Struggles: The Americas</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/sjpc-j09.html</link><description>A nationwide strike by Mexican teachers continues, while an eight-week strike by thousands of Nova Scotia care home workers has been suspended by the union ahead of a contract vote.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:46:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/5b89eabd-ba3b-433d-893b-6789627e104I/sjpc-j09.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-09T04:46:13Z</dc:date></item><item><title>3 women dead in 25 days: Social murder in Michigan prisons</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/qbnk-j09.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:56:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/3f1d2e99-3884-4b9c-8952-16ceb2ea254K/qbnk-j09.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-09T03:56:11Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Renegotiation of US-Mexico-Canada trade pact faces hurdles</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/clvs-j09.html</link><description>The USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada) trade pact is due for review on July 1, with negotiations likely to run past the deadline.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:44:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/ebd180ea-c633-4aa6-bbaa-87e1728266bA/clvs-j09.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-09T02:44:10Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Canada’s Liberal government preparing massive onslaught on worker rights with revision of Labour Code</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/09/wofo-j09.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:11:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/9486dfd8-d544-41c5-8213-bedc18bc73aH/wofo-j09.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-09T01:11:38Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Postal workers demand investigation into Demarcus Little’s death, fourth in two years at Palmetto facility</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/kmdj-j08.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:44:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/8db913a9-598d-47a5-bc25-e7e2b2a40c6C/kmdj-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T23:44:46Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Donate to the WSWS! Build a mass socialist movement of the working class!</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/zgkr-j08.html</link><description>Donate today to strengthen the WSWS—the indispensable voice and organizing center of the international working class—so we can expand our coverage, deepen our interventions, and build a movement of the working class for socialism.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:10:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/64f05a05-1486-4e6f-a043-16c8382a412E/zgkr-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T10:10:47Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Four workers dead at Palmetto—the consequence of decades of cuts and the drive to privatize USPS</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/bgfo-j08.html</link><description>Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:09:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/0bea5b84-7eec-4115-9e46-6818651e5adP/bgfo-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T04:09:46Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Who stands to lose: Future faces of the Medicaid work requirement cuts</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/dbvt-j08.html</link><description>These profiles are hypothetical composites drawn from the documented demographic patterns of the Medicaid expansion population and the known mechanisms by which work requirements produce coverage loss. They represent no single individual, but they exemplify millions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:22:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/67dd5a65-534f-4b33-b26b-5ca9866a42cB/dbvt-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T03:22:33Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Trump denounces California election, defends January 6 attackers</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/jqvc-j08.html</link><description>The US president walked out of an interview with NBC when asked to provide proof of his claims about “rigged” elections.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:21:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/9b2a11db-0af1-48c6-9dfe-2aa1df86706E/jqvc-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T03:21:26Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Court rules that Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/hdaa-j08.html</link><description>A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:04:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/bdcc4c4d-6376-4dfb-9833-5b8ab28278fP/hdaa-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T02:04:56Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Medicaid work requirements threaten coverage for millions as Trump escalates class war on the poor</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/08/kujj-j08.html</link><description>The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the work requirement provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will reduce federal Medicaid spending by $326 billion over 10 years—the single largest source of savings in the legislation—and strip coverage from an estimated 5.2 million adults by 2034.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:48:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/604465b2-c0ed-4de8-b39b-3d3f381acfcJ/kujj-j08.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-08T01:48:55Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Ann Arbor public school teachers enter sixth month without a new contract</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/07/kzro-j07.html</link><description>Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers have now gone nearly six months without a contract following their near-unanimous rejection of a tentative agreement.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:36:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/afacb2c2-2d0b-46be-8f3f-968ca6c272fI/kzro-j07.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-07T23:36:45Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Nexteer workers call for walkout to join with American Axle strikers</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/bghi-j06.html</link><description>The UAW bureaucracy is seeking to impose a fourth sellout tentative agreement after autoworkers at the Saginaw steering plant rejected the first three and voted by 86 percent to authorize a strike.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:01:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/b3bc08b6-68a8-46f8-b016-85c52153c18C/bghi-j06.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-06T05:01:50Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Madison, Wisconsin nurses facing harassment over unionization effort after hospital calls union pin “Equivalent to a KKK Pin”</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/zcwy-j06.html</link><description>Nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital have filed for a union election with the SEIU amid management intimidation, but the fight for safe staffing and patient care requires rank-and-file organization independent of a union whose history is one of isolating and betraying workers.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:55:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/9c255960-bb1b-4e19-bff1-5e135ff3e36C/zcwy-j06.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-06T04:55:54Z</dc:date></item><item><title>“We're getting duped both ways”: New York transit workers speak out on sellout Long Island Rail Road contract and the fight ahead for subway and bus workers</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/hcuw-j06.html</link><description>These struggles are two parts of a growing confrontation between the New York working class and the financial oligarchy that dominates the city.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:54:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/da87ee7e-02ce-454e-bcce-86dae113d53K/hcuw-j06.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-06T04:54:45Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Fourth death in 2 years at Palmetto, Georgia, USPS facility: Demarcus Little dies after reporting feeling unwell</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/dkwc-j06.html</link><description>Little was the father of a 21-year-old son, Demarcus Jr., and a four-year-old daughter, Lauren. Those who knew him described him as kind, considerate and an all-around great guy.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/79f6be0c-5d8f-4739-b89a-d3d4adce77eL/dkwc-j06.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-06T04:53:00Z</dc:date></item><item><title>How the Democrats enabled the allocation of an extra $70 billion for Trump’s immigration Gestapo </title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/jwtr-j06.html</link><description>The nearly $70 billion funding package is the outcome of a political operation carried out by the Democrats to strangle the mass movement that erupted after the murders of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:38:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/b2c12bba-fcc9-4bb1-8ae1-efbb931764fL/jwtr-j06.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-06T03:38:01Z</dc:date></item><item><title>“Saxophone Colossus” Sonny Rollins dies at 95 </title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/yvku-j06.html</link><description>His death marks the physical and “biographical” end of an era that began with the founding of bebop in New York during the final years of World War II.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:28:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/de81e71e-607e-44af-8526-7f9a97d6e51E/yvku-j06.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-06T01:28:23Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Southern California chemical crisis was one warning too many: Millions are living inside a ticking bomb</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/ckjw-j05.html</link><description>The Garden Grove near-disaster exposes a bipartisan political consensus that consistently places corporate profit above the lives of working-class communities.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:44:44 GMT</pubDate><guid 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immigration enforcement agents will be deployed at every stadium and every match.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:09:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/68ad9417-0db6-41c7-9004-b6a6215b7adO/zjce-j05.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-05T04:09:34Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Opposition mounts to 4th UAW-backed contract at Nexteer: “They haven’t changed anything”</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/llkq-j05.html</link><description>Like previous TAs, the latest proposal does not include any protection against layoffs, under conditions in which as many as 300 to 400 workers face job elimination over the next years through automation and consolidation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:07:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/533c6d52-2af7-4825-a96d-d3d22f85f4fO/llkq-j05.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-05T04:07:58Z</dc:date></item><item><title>American Axle workers defy strikebreaking as workers press for broader walkout across auto industry </title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/eflk-j05.html</link><description>One thousand American Axle workers continue their walkout which began on Monday against the key auto supplier and are reporting efforts by the company to move product across their picket lines while provocations against pickets have been reportedly instigated by company security guards.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:01:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/a7986e73-f16e-467d-ac93-eaa1ed82f39K/eflk-j05.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-05T04:01:58Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Minnesota Republicans observe moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, police officer who murdered George Floyd</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/aewg-j05.html</link><description>On May 30, delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party convention approved the motion for and then observed a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted by a 12-member jury in April 2021 on state charges of murdering George Floyd.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:41:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/8113abb4-3413-4e9c-919d-c98d6f99f75K/aewg-j05.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-05T03:41:03Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Trump taps personal fixers to lead Justice Department and intelligence apparatus</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/tmpq-j05.html</link><description>Todd Blanche and Bill Pulte have been selected not for independence or competence, but for their proven willingness to wield state power on Trump’s behalf.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/6f7b7f95-9180-4373-81b0-1369713a178G/tmpq-j05.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-05T03:19:00Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Florida executes Andrew Lukehart, eighth victim of DeSantis death machine in 2026</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/05/bvva-j05.html</link><description>The brutal crime for which Lukehart was executed cannot be separated from the life that produced him. The evidence presented at the penalty phase described an individual who had been systematically destroyed long before he ever came before a judge.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:20:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/ecb7bdd8-36fc-4352-91ee-c4a527b077fB/bvva-j05.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-05T02:20:20Z</dc:date></item><item><title>UAW bureaucracy releases “highlights” of fourth sellout deal at Nexteer </title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/zfwq-j04.html</link><description>Rank-and-file workers have already denounced the deal as the same contract they have already rejected three times.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:35:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/f002a23f-f32a-4e39-8076-37c24ab0ed1N/zfwq-j04.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-04T03:35:06Z</dc:date></item><item><title> Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire: The case for expropriation</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/kaod-j04.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:11:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/3726f55b-719b-455a-953a-346ebd6a838B/kaod-j04.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-04T03:11:05Z</dc:date></item><item><title>New York Democrats and Mamdani administration provide platform for Israel Day pro-genocide march</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/lkhb-j04.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:52:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/e7b570b6-cf55-4756-8e1a-60c3c4a2f89O/lkhb-j04.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-04T02:52:21Z</dc:date></item><item><title>The “Great American State Fair” debacle: Trump’s megalomania and extreme isolation</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/kcze-j04.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:00:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/74f4a40a-4229-4fa5-9fc4-ae1542377f1K/kcze-j04.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-04T02:00:25Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Canadian border authorities handing refugees over to Trump’s fascist ICE thugs</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/04/sdpc-j04.html</link><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:53:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/461acfcc-d911-4a15-b306-edb2ab691acN/sdpc-j04.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-04T00:53:34Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Train derailment in Houston TX further exposes the brutality of corporate railways </title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/zame-j03.html</link><description>While the cause of the accident still remains unknown, officials said 11 rail cars carrying finished vehicles derailed along a major rail corridor that cuts through a busy industrial and commuter section of northwest Houston.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:56:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/2b33bc67-3d85-49f0-a1a7-a8e3cef3302H/zame-j03.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-03T04:56:47Z</dc:date></item><item><title>UAW apparatus shuts down grad student strike at Harvard University: The political issues</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/rmwq-j03.html</link><description>The strike was shut down this week by the United Auto Workers because it raised deeper political and class questions which the bureaucracy works to suppress.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:21:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/4f662b89-93d2-4367-bed7-ea624e01acbA/rmwq-j03.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-03T04:21:56Z</dc:date></item><item><title>“This is capitalism gone awry. It’s just not working for everyday people”: A veteran nurse speaks about worsening conditions in healthcare</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/iayy-j03.html</link><description>With a career spanning 47 years, Mary Jo Marinelli offers a candid look at the steady decline of the American healthcare system.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:14:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/4323d472-cff8-4d7a-b885-a4a5c951eb5D/iayy-j03.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-03T04:14:17Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Democrats enforce crackdown outside Delaney Hall as Congress prepares billions more for ICE and Border Patrol</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/xanp-j03.html</link><description>The curfew and police crackdown in Newark are part of a broader assault on immigrants and anti-ICE protesters, backed by both capitalist parties.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:05:33 GMT</pubDate><guid 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naked attempt to intimidate the 1,700 Nexteer workers who have defiantly rejected three UAW-backed deals, the union apparatus could hold the next vote in the plant under the supervision of management. </description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:37:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wsws.org/asset/3ad6fbe5-44c8-42a2-9596-dd2a8fd0ef5C/odeq-j03.html</guid><dc:date>2026-06-03T02:37:38Z</dc:date></item><item><title>The balance sheet of Castroism as Trump prepares war on Cuba</title><link>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/agqn-j03.html</link><description>Workers in Cuba, the US and across the Americas must urgently mobilize in opposition to Trump’s blockade and war plans, but effective opposition to imperialism requires a historical balance sheet of Castroism and the Cuban Revolution.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:28:27 GMT</pubDate><guid 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