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Israel escalates rampage in Lebanon

Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40 wounded in attacks across the south and the Bekaa Valley.

Andre Damon

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Hundreds of Argentine and Bolivian workers, students and retirees carried out a mass march through downtown Buenos Aires and rallied at the Bolivian embassy in support for the general strike and mobilization of the Bolivian proletariat and peasantry fighting to overthrow President Rodrigo Paz.

US launches missile strikes on Iran in advance of talks in Qatar

A US Central Command spokesperson said the strikes on a port city in southern Iran were carried out “to defend our forces” against “threats posed by Iranian forces,” although he provided no evidence or details about the claimed threats.

Kevin Reed

Democrats join Republicans to attack Trump over Iran negotiations

The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had “largely” reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to US imperialism.

Andre Damon

This week in history: May 25-31

US convicts four in embassy bombings; Syria intervenes in Lebanon civil war; Britain opposes Iran oil nationalization; Ukrainian rightist assassinated in Paris.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

South Korea: Samsung Electronics union suspends planned walkout; India: Punjab municipal sanitation workers still on strike; Gig workers across India strike over rising fuel costs and declining wages; Air India ground staff hold one-day strike in Mumbai; 20,000 South Australian nurses resume industrial action for better pay and conditions; Maintenance workers strike at Woodside’s LNG production plants.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Thousands of doctors across Spain and teachers in some regions walk out over pay and conditions; protests by farmers in Syria as government sets price of wheat below cost of production; over 700 arrests made during mass protests across Kenya over rising fuel prices and cost-of-living crisis

London Underground workers must organise to resume RMT-cancelled strike

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union’s ability to maintain a militant posture has been greatly undermined by its role in defusing a struggle against the Starmer government—through repeated closed-door meetings with TfL and strike cancellations. Dempsey’s tub-thumping has given way to demands for “industrial peace”.

Tony Robson

Germany’s civil defence plan: The government prepares the country for war

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the federal government are driving forward the transformation of Germany into a military state. Under the cynical pretext of “civil protection,” a 10-billion-euro programme will integrate society into military war planning, preparing Germany as a central NATO hub for deployment against Russia.

Johannes Stern

UAW Local 180 suppresses strike by CNH Industrial workers in Racine, Wisconsin

A contract locking in 4 percent annualized wage increases was already insufficient the day it was ratified. The war against Iran—a war of aggression waged by US imperialism that is now directly raising the cost of living for workers across the country—makes the inadequacy of this contract all the more stark.

Bill Shaw
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