Outrage in Greece after police kill unarmed, autistic 20-year-old in Argos
The fatal shooting of Theodoris Karampampas has ignited anger and protests against a police force operating with near-total impunity.
•John Vassilopoulos
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Australia: Greens promote bankrupt parliamentary appeals at NDIS protests
Opposed to any independent mobilisation of the working class, the Greens insisted that the far-right, big-business Coalition can be pressured into defending disabled people.
•Stephen Griffiths
First-ever “left-wing terrorism” charges planned in Australia
ASIO-police accusations of left-wing terrorism mark a watershed political shift amid mounting war preparations.
•Mike Head
Sri Lankan educators protest low pay and impossible working conditions
The teachers’ unions, which have suppressed opposition to the JVP/NPP government’s austerity measures, called a limited protest on August 4.
•Dayananda Ratnayake, Kapila Fernando
Ukraine and Iran votes expose support by Democrats and Republicans for global war
The bipartisan 86-11 vote in the Senate would impose further economic sanctions on Russia and Iran, both targeted by American imperialism.
•Patrick Martin
Türkiye’s new bill demands the Kurdish PKK’s liquidation, offers nothing in return
Erdoğan’s government has submitted a bill to parliament formalizing the PKK’s dissolution. It offers no amnesty, leaves Öcalan imprisoned and places the fate of those covered entirely in the hands of the Turkish security apparatus.
•Barış Demir
NZ First Party youth leader linked to neo-Nazi groups
Amid a rapidly worsening social crisis, fascistic ideas are being encouraged and normalised by New Zealand’s political establishment.
•John Braddock
German interior minister exploits Berlin Pride attack to demand police-state expansion
Questions remain unanswered about why a convicted IS supporter, under round-the-clock surveillance, was released and his monitoring scaled back days before the attack on the Pride event.
•Marianne Arens
German government uses discovery of drone in Leipzig to escalate war on Russia
The discovery of an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport, along with the provocative and irresponsible reactions to it, show just how close Germany is to a direct war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.
•Peter Schwarz
California: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and state Democrats’ policies threaten destruction of Medi-Cal
California never introduced universal healthcare. Now, the combined policies of the Trump administration and state Democrats threaten to destroy Medi-Cal.
•Marc Wells
CIA launches Cuba task force amid new sanctions and UN warnings of a “silent Gaza”
The establishment of a CIA task force and a new round of sanctions mark a sharp escalation of Washington’s regime-change operation.
•Andrea Lobo
National Steel Car workers: Reject the corporate/USW “partnership!” Prepare strike action under rank-and-file control!
The centrepiece of USW Local 7135’s 2026 contract campaign—the elimination of the “incentive” program,” i.e., piecework—has evaporated over the last two weeks. The union now proposes to get involved in administering the piecework program rather than abolish it.
•National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: App-based gig workers strike in Assam; Bihar sanitation workers continue walkout; Pakistan: CDA workers demonstrate against privatisation; Australia: Victorian public hospital doctors to strike over pay and unsafe workloads; BHP Pilbara port workers escalate industrial campaign
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Economic costs of climate change soar in Europe, leaving working class to pay
The strain falls on economies already being brought to breaking point by the parasitic growth of the super-rich oligarchy and its monopolisation of social wealth, coupled with the rapacious demands of the military.
•Thomas Scripps
Workers welcome 2-year suspension of UAW International staffer for death threat against Will Lehman
On August 4, the court-appointed UAW Monitor stripped Raymond Jensen Jr., an organizer for the UAW Department of Bargaining Strategy, of his membership for two years and barred him for life from union office after ruling that his threat violated federal election rules.
•Our reporters
Yen intervention points to US financial vulnerabilities
There was growing concern that the selling of Treasuries by Japan to support the yen would lift US interest rates and impact the AI stock market boom.
•Nick Beams
UNESCO adds sites in Palestine and Lebanon under assault from IDF to list of World Heritage in danger
The three heritage sites have come under assault from Israel and its military.
•Sandy English
Senate committee holds Fauci in contempt as multiple outbreaks rage across the US
The same government prosecuting the scientists who study infectious disease has dismantled the surveillance systems that would measure its return.
•Benjamin Mateus
Trump targets birthright citizenship in renewed attack on 14th Amendment
The orders seek to create a hereditary caste of US-born people denied citizenship based on their parents’ political affiliations, employment or alleged conduct.
•Jacob Crosse
As NATO and Ukraine’s war against Russia escalates, drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea increase
As NATO’s war against Russia escalates, seafarers in the Black Sea are paying with their lives.
•Barış Demir
Australian government establishes inquiry to prepare for war
This is not a general inquiry into “defence” but an examination of how to operationally wage a major war in the near-term, including by suppressing opposition from the population.
•Oscar Grenfell
A “socialism” for the New York Times: Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara’s interview with Ross Douthat
One of the DSA’s most prominent voices sat down with a conservative columnist of the New York Times to deliver a systematic, point-by-point assurance that the DSA is loyal to American capitalism.
•Joseph Kishore
Australia: Multiple fires on Sydney trams in 1 day highlight deepening safety crisis
There have now been six battery-related fires on Sydney’s light rail system in five months, including two within hours on July 11.
•Leonard Johns
Workers in Türkiye defend Will Lehman against death threat from top UAW official
Workers and young people in Türkiye have sent letters to the World Socialist Web Site condemning the death threat made on social media against Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in the United States, by Raymond L. Jensen Jr., a high-ranking official of the United Auto Workers.
•Our reporters
Debt-ridden local authorities in Germany plan further social cuts
The claim that “there is no money” for public services is a lie. Whether money is available or not is decided politically.
•Lena Sokoll
Özgür Özel’s New Party: A defense of Türkiye’s old order
The New Party's program, led by Özgür Özel, is not a response to the social and democratic aspirations of working people. It is a program designed to confine these aspirations within the framework of the capitalist profit system and the NATO alliance.
•Ulaş Sevinç
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Ground workers at Barcelona airport, Spain strike over conditions; journalists in Gaza rally for release of imprisoned colleagues; Misr El Amria textile workers in Egypt defy company union to strike over pay
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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.
•Christoph Vandreier
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.
•Patrick Martin
Raymond Jensen suspended from UAW, barred from ever running for office over threat to Will Lehman
The sanctions against Jensen, a paid organizer on the UAW International payroll, are a victory for Lehman's campaign and for the working class.
•Evan Blake
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.
•Chris Ross
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.
•Peter Schwarz
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.
•Ben McGrath
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.
•A. Woodson, Steve Light
Australian military think tank strategises building “social licence” for war
The ASPI defence 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.
•Taylor Bennington
Canada’s Liberal government prevails on CUPE to short-circuit militant strike of 4,400 WestJet flight attendants
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.
•Carl Bronski
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.
•Naveen Dewage
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.
•Robert Stevens
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.
•Jean Shaoul
1-month-long strike by Norwegian oil service workers ended
For appearances’ sake, the capitalist Norwegian state invokes democracy and equality before the law. In practice, however, this has long been countered by a strike law designed to suppress industrial action.
•Kim Nachtweid
Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the fourth death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract
Brasher is the third Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.
•Jerry White
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: A social and cultural phenomenon
Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.
•David Walsh
Japanese PM makes brief visit to Kumamoto quake zone
Takaichi announced her government would designate the earthquake “a disaster of extreme severity,” but only provided $US127 million in assistance for the devastated prefecture.
•Peter Symonds
Australia: Queensland teachers face longer freeze on pay and conditions
Despite two widely supported 24-hour strikes last year, educators in Queensland remain straitjacketed in an arbitration system, facing a more than two-year pay freeze and no relief from intolerable workloads.
•Our correspondent
The War in Ukraine and the Struggle for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotjuk—now available from Mehring Verlag
This book provides the first comprehensive account of Bogdan’s case and brings together his own writings and analyses the historical and political causes of the war in Ukraine.
•Mehring Verlag
Nicaragua moves to ban “Yankee” agents from elections as Trump policies hit economy
The Sandinista government is pushing a constitutional reform excluding US-funded parties from elections, even as it answers imperialist pressure with concessions to Washington and foreign capital.
•Andrea Lobo
ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status
The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.
•Jacob Crosse
BMW cuts 8,000 jobs in Germany
As the last of the major German carmakers, BMW has now joined the ranks of corporations destroying jobs on a massive scale, agreeing with IG Metall to cut around 8,000 positions—almost one in 10 of its 84,000 jobs in Germany.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
First deaths in US cyclosporiasis outbreak reported in Michigan
Two people have died in Michigan in the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis ever recorded in the United States.
•Benjamin Mateus
FBI targets Chinese-American media executive in expanding anti-China campaign
The raids expose the growing anti-China witch-hunt as a pretext for building the legal framework to criminalize political opposition.
•Marc Wells
Ultimate Classroom: War propaganda in Australian schools
This TV program is a full-throated promotion of militarism, seeking to counter the animosity toward war among young people.
•Frank Gaglioti
Canada’s ruling class exploits “anti-scab” legislation hailed by union bureaucracy to break strikes
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled for the second time in less than a month, July 22, that management at the strikebound Bank of Canada, a key institution of the Canadian capitalist state, were in violation of the recently enacted revisions of the Canada Labour Code in Bill C-58.
•Carl Bronski
Rescue of 173 migrants narrowly averts mass Channel deaths, as Burnham pledges “relentless” efforts to “stop the boats”
A report titled How ‘stopping the boats’ kills show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
•Simon Whelan
Ontario to Bordeaux to Spokane: The escalating climate crisis and the fight for socialism
More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's history.
•Bryan Dyne
Now available from Mehring Verlag: “My Life” by Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky’s autobiography “My Life” is now available from Mehring Verlag. The work is published in a German translation by Alexandra Ramm, with a new foreword by David North.
•Mehring Verlag
Mamdani opposes $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed his campaign pledge to support a $10,000 bonus for paraprofessional school aides, some of the city’s most exploited workers.
•Jesse Thomas, Barry Grey
Dollar fears prompt US-Japan yen rescue operation
Concerns were growing that sales of dollar assets by Japan to prop up its currency could have adversely impacted the US bond market.
•Nick Beams
US imperialism wargames the military draft
The Selective Service System is seeking a contractor to build a computer simulation capable of testing the mass mobilization of conscripts for a major war.
•Chase Lawrence
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers at Great Canadian Entertainment casinos are demanding pay parity, while workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center in Pennsylvania have rejected management's inadequate wage offer.
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23-year-old Aboriginal man dies in police custody in South Australia
The officers involved remain on active duty; none has been suspended or stood down.
•Mitya Moor, Eric Ludlow
Israel launches massacre in Gaza, as Trump threatens Iran with “decapitation”
Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks.
•Andre Damon
Fifty-four-day strike at São Paulo’s universities: The political lessons
A strike movement swept São Paulo’s state universities, drawing students, staff and faculty into one of the largest movements in the history of Brazilian higher education.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Brazil)
ICE Gestapo kidnaps record 51,000 people in July as Trump expands mass deportation operation
Approximately 68,000 immigrants are languishing in a mostly for-profit concentration camp system marked by medical neglect, deaths in custody, force-feeding and contaminated drinking water.
•Jacob Crosse
Porsche and IG Metall union agree to elimination of a further 5,000 jobs in Germany
While Porsche and the IG Metall-dominated works council have agreed to further job and pay cuts and worse conditions, union officials are being rewarded with new paid positions on a “future advisory board.”
•K. Nesan, Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Japan launches new intelligence agency
The reorganization of Tokyo’s intelligence operations is to expand military planning with allies while attacking democratic rights at home in order to clamp down on anti-war opposition.
•Ben McGrath
Thousands evacuated from their homes as wildfires rage across Canada
More than 900 fires are currently burning across Canada, with dozens of them out of control. Over 120 of these are raging in British Columbia, where residents of well over 2,000 properties had been evacuated under 32 orders as of Friday.
•Jake Silver, Roger Jordan
Australia: NSW Teachers Federation collaborates in teacher dismissals
The trade union is enforcing the sacking of teachers for “under-performance” via the so-called Teacher Improvement Program.
•Anna Siviero
SEP condemns police intimidation of WSWS reporter in Sri Lanka
WSWS writer Dinesh Heymaal was threatened with arrest by police after he opposed the nationalism and militarism of politicians and union officials following a fishermen’s protest near Jaffna.
•Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
An interview with historian Timothy H. Breen on popular mobilization in the American Revolution
Breen discusses the role of ordinary people and local committees in the American Revolution, the emergence of popular sovereignty and democracy from below, the cultural break with Britain, and the contemporary misuse and neglect of the revolution’s history.
•Tom Mackaman
Burnham pledges to be “relentless” in blocking migrants crossing the Channel
Amid a right-wing backlash following events at Ceuta encompassing all Europe’s capitalist parties, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham travelled to Dover on Sunday to take his place in this xenophobic campaign.
•Robert Stevens
Health workers in Britain defend Will Lehman against violent threat by UAW bureaucracy
NHS FightBack, representing rank-and-file doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, e-mailed a letter to the UAW to register outrage and demand immediate action.
•Our correspondent
Moscow terrorist attack kills 3, injures 21
Ever since the beginning of the NATO-provoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, terrorist attacks on Russian soil have formed a critical part of the NATO-Ukraine war strategy.
•Clara Weiss
Congo Ebola outbreak becomes second largest ever recorded
Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC became the second largest, surpassing the 2018-2020 outbreak that occurred in eastern DRC as well. Health authorities have noted the current outbreak is the fastest, outpacing all other previous outbreaks. There remain no treatment or vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain to date.
•Benjamin Mateus
European governments demand crackdown on migrants after 99 die trying to reach Spain
There is nothing accidental about the dozens of deaths, as over 60,000 people sought to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Europe’s governments have effectively abolished refugee rights and built external borders that Trump would be proud of. Europe’s leaders prefer mass death to allowing immigrants to reach the continent.
•Jordan Shilton
Farewell to Herma Huber, a fighter for Trotskyism
Herma’s willingness to help others was almost boundless, but she was also a fighter for justice and equality and, above all, against war and fascism.”
•Marianne Arens
South Australian nurses reject union-Labor sellout
The vote shows that South Australian nurses and midwives are not only up against a Labor government that wants to slash their pay and conditions, but a union bureaucracy that is complicit in the attack.
•Martin Scott
Trump revives push to create slush fund for fascist rioters
The infighting within the Republican Party and the Trump administration is a sign of the deepening political crisis within the US ruling elite.
•Patrick Martin
Hedge fund collapse a “cautionary tale” for AI boom
The demise of Situational Awareness could have set off a fire sale of assets possibly sending the rout in the market for chipmaking stocks out of control.
•Nick Beams
Australia: Miner killed at Peak Downs in central Queensland
In the latest mining industry fatality, a worker was killed and another seriously injured in a collision between two vehicles at BMA’s open-cut coal mine.
•Leonard Johns
NZ foreign minister tells Chinese-born MP: “Go back to your own country”
NZ First Party leader Winston Peters’ racist tirade against Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan demonises Chinese people in order to divide workers and further align New Zealand with US-led war preparations.
•Tom Peters
Veteran autoworker James Brasher killed in industrial accident at Stellantis MOPAR facility in Detroit suburbs
The family and coworkers of James Brasher received empty promises of a full investigation from the UAW and management, who are covering up details of the tragedy.
•Our reporter
Columbia University graduate student union drops demand for divestment from pro-genocide companies
Under pressure from the UAW bureaucracy, the leadership of Student Workers of Columbia, the UAW-affiliate, dropped its demand the university administration divest from companies and institutions tied to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
•John Conrad
Peru’s newly elected President Keiko Fujimori exploits killing of Shining Path commander as pretext for military rule
The VRAEM operation was carried out for maximum political impact, while international delegations were still on Peruvian soil for the inauguration.
•César Uco
Over 4,000 WestJet flight attendants on strike across Canada against unpaid labour
Summing up the sentiments of the rank-and-file against a system that robs them on average of $1,100 per month and particularly penalizes low-paid, low-seniority flight attendants, the strikers’ picket signs declare: “Unpaid labour won’t fly.”
•Pierre Lajeunesse
This week in history: August 3-9
Bush restricts federal funding for embryonic stem cell research; striking ILWU worker Norman Ray Lewis murdered on a California picket line; US breaks off Korean War armistice talks; first commercial "talkie" film premieres in New York.
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East Midlands Railway workers strike over safety following Bedford crash
The RMT organised pickets at several stations, including Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and London St Pancras. The stoppage forced EMR to run a skeleton service between Sheffield and Nottingham, with only one train an hour to London St Pancras and services ending at 7p.m.
•Tony Robson
Joint US–Saudi attack on Iraq widens front of the imperialist war in Middle East
What Washington called “precision strikes” were an open extension of the war into Iraq, carried out with the participation of Saudi Arabia.
•Jean Shaoul
The pro-business record of departing Australian union chiefs McManus and O’Neil
In a period marked by unprecedented global shocks, the two leaders of the Australian Council of Trade Unions have served as the linchpin of capitalist stability.
•Martin Scott
Australian pseudo-left seeking to head off rebellion against union bureaucracy by Victorian teachers
With various manoeuvres and phoney militant posturing, the pseudo-left groups are trying to keep teachers subordinated to a union leadership that is pushing a sellout.
•Committee for Public Education
Australia: Significant opposition to union sellout deal at Western Sydney University
The “no” vote rate is almost four times higher than the last enterprise agreement vote at WSU in 2022.
•A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Sanitation worker strikes continue across India and tea workers block a highway in Bangladesh. In Australia, nurses reject a union-endorsed sellout and doctors vote to strike for the first time in decades.
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Stevens and El-Sayed (“I am a capitalist”) debate in run-up to Democratic primary
El-Sayed made a point of declaring his opposition to socialism, signaling to the corporate oligarchy that he did not represent a threat to its basic interests.
•Barry Grey
Medicaid work requirements take effect: No money for healthcare, $1.5 trillion for war
Trump’s bill is projected to cut about $1.4 trillion in federal spending over 10 years. The government estimates the work requirements for Medicaid will strip 2.3 million people from the Medicaid rolls in its first year.
•Kate Randall
Sam Neill, a key figure in Australian and New Zealand new wave cinema, dies aged 78
Sam Neill never lost his genuine concern for the plight of workers and the oppressed, contempt for racialist politics and distrust of celebrity.
•Richard Phillips
UAW presidential debate reveals class divide between socialist autoworker Will Lehman and pro-apparatus candidates
Lehman advanced a program of rank-and-file power, internationalism and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy in stark contrast to the other candidates, who are seeking to place themselves at the head of the corrupt and bloated union apparatus.
•Shannon Jones
Union bureaucracy, DSA rally behind Troy Jackson after collapse of Graham Platner campaign
The former Maine Senate president is being promoted as a working class insurgent, but his 26-year political record is defined by economic nationalism, attacks on immigrant and Canadian workers and corporate subsidies.
•Jacob Crosse
Berlin Court declares the city’s transport company must continue an advertising campaign for the far-right portal “Nius”
The courts move swiftly to protect fascist speech while criminalizing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
•Andy Niklaus
Detroit legal aid strikers call for unity: “We should all be out together”
More than 80 public defenders, social workers, paralegals, and support staff walked out on July 24 against the Neighborhood Defender Service, an agency that handles about half of the indigent defense cases throughout Wayne County.
•Lawrence Porter
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
•Benjamin Mateus
German government in crisis
The government’s disastrous poll ratings reflect growing opposition to policies that enjoy no support whatsoever among the population.
•Peter Schwarz
Lula and Morenoite-led union promote arms industry amid US offensive against Brazil
The reactivation of Avibras, Brazil’s largest arms manufacturer, exposes the alliance between the PT government, the military and the Morenoite union bureaucracy in defense of a nationalist and militarist program.
•Guilherme Ferreira
US looting of Venezuela continues amid earthquake disaster
The widening humanitarian crisis has not stopped the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales—with estimates as high as 96.5 percent of the revenue.
•Andrea Lobo
Mass arrests of Palestine Action defenders outside Westminster Magistrates Court
Since the Labour government’s proscription of Palestine Action one year ago, 3,500 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act (2000) for holding cardboard signs reading, “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”
•Chris Marsden
Burnham pledges nuclear weapons submarines to be paid for by welfare cuts
The £8.4 billion pledged for the next phase of Britain's Dreadnought nuclear armed submarine programme was the first significant funding announcement of Burnham’s premiership, committing him to austerity and war.
•Robert Stevens
Royal Mail's DM26 rollout exposes CWU's partnership with management—organise the rank-and-file fightback
The Communication Workers Union bureaucracy has co-authored this wrecking operation because it accepts EP Group’s drive to make Royal Mail "competitive" and "sustainable" for the company’s billionaire investors.
•Tony Robson
Australian Labor Party’s national conference hails savage assault on disability services as a “reform”
In Labor’s doublespeak, getting the National Disability Insurance Scheme “back on track” means stripping it to the bone.
•Owen Howell
American workers and youth are turning towards socialism
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democratic Party to fight.
•Patrick Martin
New Zealand students condemn death threat against US socialist auto worker Will Lehman
The IYSSE’s club at Victoria University of Wellington passed a resolution condemning the threat made by United Auto Workers official Raymond Jensen Jr. against Lehman, who is running for president of the UAW on a socialist platform.
•International Youth and Students for Social Equality (New Zealand)
Widespread protests in Bangladesh against poverty wages, mass layoffs
The wave of protests and strikes centred in the garment industry is part of a growing international upsurge of the working class, fuelled by the economic crisis exacerbated by the US war against Iran.
•Wimal Perera
The deadly Atlantic route: Over 140 people die while fleeing from West Africa to Europe
The mass deaths in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean will only cease when the EU and its member governments are overthrown and brought to trial for their crimes and the murder of thousands of refugees.
•Katerina Selin
Tens of millions face Medicaid cutoff, as Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” work requirements lock into place
A seismic change in how Medicaid benefits are distributed—requiring millions of recipients to provide documentation of 80 hours of work or face cutoff—has largely flown under the radar.
•Kate Randall
Gordie Howe bridge opens amid Trump’s tariff blackmail against Canada
The opening of the vital Detroit-Windsor crossing exposes both the international integration of production and the efforts of the capitalist parties and union bureaucracies to divide workers through nationalism and trade war.
•Kevin Reed
US resumes strikes on Iran as global war escalates
Trump ordered a pause to 13 nights of US air strikes on Iranian targets Friday under conditions in which US munition stockpiles, especially for its missile defence systems, are running low. However, recent days have underscored that American imperialism and its allies continue to systematically escalate the war.
•Jordan Shilton
4 water main ruptures in 2 weeks: The collapse of social infrastructure in Los Angeles
Four Los Angeles water main collapses expose the systemic decay of American infrastructure under capitalism, sacrificed to war and corporate wealth.
•Marc Wells
University of Washington names new Middle East Center director 3 months after political firing of Aria Fani
The appointment follows the political removal of Aria Fani for criticizing US and Israeli military aggression, part of a nationwide campaign by university administrations to suppress anti-war and anti-Zionist speech.
•Diana Green
Keiko Fujimori’s inaugural speech: A class war agenda for Peru’s oligarchy and US imperialism
The seven “objectives” announced by Peru's incoming president express the interests not simply of Fujimorism, but of the Peruvian financial oligarchy and US imperialism, at a moment of acute crisis of bourgeois rule.
•Francis Portocarrero
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Healthcare workers in Romania begin indefinite stoppage over pay and conditions; national 24-hour strike by rail workers in Italy for more pay and improved safety; protests across Tunisia and Libya due to collapsing infrastructure during heatwave
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Ockenden report reveals a massive regression in UK maternity care linked to staff shortages
The report found that between 2012-25 there were six avoidable maternal deaths, 94 avoidable stillbirths and 62 neonatal deaths of babies on the threshold of life at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
•Margot Miller
Public defenders strike in New York City and Detroit; Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, calls for unified walkout
More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and crushing caseloads.
•our reporters
The witch-hunt against Anthony Fauci and the war on public health
Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties.
•Evan Blake
Australia: Union-management sellout agreement passed at University of Newcastle
This outcome, after three limited strikes and 15 months of closed-door negotiations, is a warning of the retrograde enterprise agreements that the trade unions are trying to impose at public universities across the country.
•Our correspondent
As ASEAN meets, manufactured confrontations in the South China Sea
The clashes in the South China Sea during last week’s ASEAN summit in Manila expose the deliberate manufacturing of conflict with China by the Philippine state, acting on behalf of a US drive to militarize Southeast Asia.
•John Malvar
Sri Lankan fake lefts defend government over killing of Negombo prisoners
The fake left have chimed in, not to denounce the government and prison authorities for their brutality, but to join the chorus calling for prison reform and how to run the jails more efficiently.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Split at the Fed as it keeps interest rate on hold
Bond markets signal that inflation is set to rise over coming months and maybe even years.
•Nick Beams
Ukraine’s attack on Iranian ship exposes global character of imperialist war
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the same global imperialist onslaught that includes the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran.
•Johannes Stern
ICE detains travelers at US airports in expanding police state dragnet
Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of private concentration camps.
•Jacob Crosse
Canadian workers defend Will Lehman in face of death threat from top UAW official
Will Lehman, a candidate for the presidency of the United Auto Workers in the ongoing election, was sent a death threat by a top union official and close ally of current President Shawn Fain. Workers across Canada have responded angrily to Jensen’s thuggish behaviour and sent statements of solidarity to the WSWS.
•Our reporter
Teamsters proclaim “victory” at United Airlines while withholding contract from 11,000 mechanics
More than a week after declaring an "industry-leading" agreement, the Teamsters have still not released a term sheet, wage schedule or contract language to United mechanics.
•Claude Delphian
New York Times publishes friendly interview with Mamdani
There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class.
•Daniel de Vries, Barry Grey
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States
Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.
•Benjamin Mateus
Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes
A week apart, a journalist who reported on shipments of cocaine from Ecuador aboard merchant ships owned by the oligarchic family in power and a prosecutor probing US bombing of fishing boats accused were both found murdered.
•Andrea Lobo
Bolivia’s President Paz imposes starvation regime
According to the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, 52 percent of Bolivians suffer from food insecurity, and anemia afflicts 53.7 percent of young children.
•César Uco
Roger Waters reimagines the Pink Floyd classic “Comfortably Numb” as appeal for Palestinian rights
Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona Miari.
•Kevin Reed
Burnham’s business secretary reassures Financial Times of Labour’s pro-market bona fides
Jonathan Reynolds reassured the FT that Burnham's talk of facilitating “public control” over critical sectors of the economy was an appeal for collaboration with private investors not an attempt to control or replace them.
•Robert Stevens
Greens-led Haringey Council backs KPMG auditors’ demands for savage cuts
The Greens have prostrated themselves before KPMG, pledging a three-year “Financial Resilience Plan” that will slash spending on key service areas including housing and adult social care “where spending is high” and which offer “the greatest opportunity” to deliver savings “through cost reductions or increased income”.
•Laura Tiernan
Major earthquake hits southern Japan
At least 13 people are dead and hundreds have been hospitalised as the quake damaged buildings, disrupted transport and cut off power to tens of thousands.
•Peter Symonds
Australia: Victorian premier removed as Labor seeks to assuage big-business concerns
The sudden leadership change points to a developing crisis of Labor not only in Victoria but federally, which its stage-managed national conference sought to cover over with a confected display of total “unity.”
•Oscar Grenfell
UPS worker killed at Horsham, Pennsylvania hub
As of publication, neither Teamsters Local 384, the Teamsters national union, nor its Package Division have issued a public statement on the death.
•Leon Gutierrez
Trump meets with Zelensky and Netanyahu in the White House on Russia and Iran war crises
President Trump held separate Oval Office meetings with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel on Tuesday to discuss the next stage of the wars against Russia and Iran.
•Kevin Reed
Major global selloff in chip stocks
The past week has seen a sharp fall in the share price of major chipmaking firms, especially those based in South Korea, but now extending to Wall Street.
•Nick Beams
Milei in Brazil: Argentina’s fascist president campaigns for Flávio Bolsonaro on behalf of US imperialism
Javier Milei traveled to São Paulo to headline the launch of Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, delivering a 27-minute fascistic speech that reveals the campaign’s dependence on Washington.
•Tomas Castanheira
Florida carries out first double execution in six decades as US death toll mounts
Florida on Tuesday carried out its first double execution in more than 60 years. The pairing of the two executions, ordered six hours apart by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is itself a marker of the pace at which the state has been killing its prisoners.
•Kate Randall
At Lindsey Graham’s funeral, Trump hails a senator who “never saw a war he didn’t like”
The US president was joined by Volodymyr Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the funeral of the warhawk senator.
•Patrick Martin
The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers conventions: Empty promises and support for the Democrats
The national conventions of the American teachers unions were held without a plan to fight the escalating destruction of public education, mass school closures, or mounting layoffs. Instead, the events were handed over to the Democratic Party.
•Renae Cassimeda, Nancy Hanover
Over 300,000 Haitians targeted for deportation as Trump administration guts asylum rights
The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as it imposed a new rule allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications to be sent into deportation proceedings without an interview.
•Jacob Crosse
New Zealand election: Green Party AGM postures against social inequality, silent on war
The Green Party is seeking to neutralise mounting anger among workers and youth by pretending it will pressure a Labour-led government to address inequality and poverty.
•Tom Peters
India’s Cockroach Janata Party suspends student agitation after Modi government makes token concession
The situation remains explosive. The CJP has been forced to threaten to resume its agitation, after the government reneged even on the modest promises it made to head off a burgeoning India-wide protest movement.
•Wasantha Rupasingha, Keith Jones
State Department report blames Cuba for social unrest: Rubio prepares total war at home and abroad
Rubio’s report blames Havana for six decades of social struggle in the US, fusing political opposition at home and resistance to US neo-colonialism abroad into a single enemy.
•Andrea Lobo
Postal workers in Britain condemn death threat against Will Lehman by UAW official
Postal workers at Royal Mail in Britain have added their voices to the growing international condemnation of the public death threat made against Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and candidate in the United Auto Workers presidential election, by a senior UAW official.
•our correspondent
Maritime Union of Australia helps quash debate of Gaza genocide at Labor conference
The union bureaucrats that have postured as opponents of the genocide played the linchpin role in suppressing any discussion of the Israeli regime’s crimes at Labor’s national conference.
•Oscar Grenfell
Bronx public defenders walk out
The WSWS spoke to Bronx Defenders attorneys, social workers and support staff, who launched a strike Monday over wages and working conditions.
•Tim Avery, Elliott Murtagh, Steve Light
Australia: Labor’s $10 billion housing scheme delivers under 1,500 homes in 2 years
The Housing Australia Future Fund, a central part of Labor’s election platform in 2022, was supposed to make available an additional 40,000 dwellings by 2029.
•Vicki Mylonas
1 year since the IWA-RFC hearing on the death of Ronald Adams Sr.: MIOSHA still silent as industrial toll mounts
On July 27, 2025, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) presented its initial findings of its independent investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
•Jerry White
Chicago Public Schools announces 1,723 layoffs, exposing conspiracy between union and mayor
The cuts are the outcome of the four-year contract that the Chicago Teachers Union leadership and Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson imposed on teachers in April 2025.
•Joe Raymond
Deadly flooding strikes West Virginia and Texas as global climate catastrophe intensifies
Floods, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires mark a further intensification of the global climate catastrophe, driven by decades of fossil-fuel emissions and the refusal of capitalist governments to undertake the internationally coordinated measures required to protect human life.
•Gavin Green
As imperialist wars converge, Ukraine strikes Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea
Ukraine struck an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea on Saturday claiming it was carrying drone and missile cargo destined for Russia. Iran threatened retaliation, and Russia said it was a commercial vessel carrying civilian cargo.
•Kevin Reed
Trump Michigan speech: Trade war and anti-communism
Trump’s appearance combined appeals to economic nationalism with red-baiting against all political opposition.
•Patrick Martin
Europe’s “firewave” and global capitalism’s climate crisis
Workers must fight for the resources to mount an urgent response, but to carry out such measures without also tackling the social system producing these disasters is like firefighting on the slopes of a volcano.
•Thomas Scripps
UAW secretary-treasurer debate lays bare sharp conflicts in the apparatus over administration of vast union assets
Despite the bitter conflicts in the UAW centered around fabricated allegations against Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock and Vice President Rich Boyer, none of the contending factions advanced any opposition to the reactionary, pro-corporate program of the union bureaucracy headed by President Shawn Fain.
•Shannon Jones
Australian government plans harsher foreign interference laws
The existing legislation itself amounts to a far-reaching attack on basic democratic rights, particularly against anti-war and anti-genocide activity, or any anti-government dissent.
•Mike Head
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Guatemala bus, transit and delivery drivers hold protest strike; Picket line clash between striking workers and sheriff's deputies at C&H sugar in California.
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The war at home: Record 2026-27 school closures—the working class pays for US imperialism
The nationwide wave of closures is not the sum of isolated local decisions. It is the restructuring of public education in the interests of the financial oligarchy that declares neighborhood schools unaffordable while submitting a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget.
•Jane Wise
Israel’s violence engulfs occupied West Bank
Netanyahu is set to meet US President Donald Trump in the White House on Tuesday, his seventh meeting in Trump’s second term, far outpacing any other world leader.
•Jean Shaoul
Burnham hosts Zelensky, promises deeper UK involvement in war with Russia
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said “it was a very warm meeting… We got on very well indeed, and this is going to be a close partnership.”
•Robert Stevens
Australian Labor Party conference: Right-wing apparatus suppresses any debate
There was a close connection between the form of the conference, which suppressed any discussion, and Labor’s commitment to a program of war, austerity and attacks on democratic rights.
•Oscar Grenfell
Islamist attack on Berlin CSD: Government intensifies police state offensive
The reactionary attack on queer people is being used by the federal government to push forward the expansion of the police and intelligence apparatus. Its talk of “freedom” and “openness” is thoroughly hypocritical.
•Johannes Stern
The contemporary relevance of Felix Morrow’s Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain
Felix Morrow’s Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain is one of the oldest, yet also one of the most relevant books on the Spanish Civil War, stated Peter Schwarz, a member of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, at a symposium in Berlin.
•Our reporters
Democrats reject any appeal to popular opposition to subversion of midterm elections
The lurch to dictatorship is not the work of one individual, but rather the response of a crisis-ridden ruling oligarchy to unprecedented levels of social polarization and growing opposition in the working class.
•Barry Grey
The debate over Trump’s plans for a “massive” escalation in Iran: Everything is discussed except the crime
The Iran war is treated across the US political establishment as a policy that has failed, not a crime that has been committed.
•Andre Damon
Hundreds of public defender workers in Michigan, New York and Texas strike to defend healthcare benefits and pay
UAW members in three states walked out on July 24.
•Anthony Callahan
After Supreme Court setback, Trump back on trade war path
Trump has found a new mechanism to impose tariffs and is looking to expand its use.
•Nick Beams
Workers in Mexico, US voice support for Will Lehman after death threat by UAW official
Support continues to grow from workers in the US, Mexico and internationally for Will Lehman, the Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for United Auto Workers president, following the death threat against him by an UAW International staff member.
•Our reporters
Protests continue against police and ICE killings in Wisconsin, Texas
While hundreds demanded justice for Corey Ruiz and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the officers responsible for their deaths remain unidentified, uncharged and protected by the state.
•Jacob Crosse
Trump berates the press, with little response
The fascist president’s remarks were a mixture of rehashed insults and incomprehensible meandering.
•Patrick Martin
Frank Gehry (1929–2025) and his search for a “sliver of space”
Gehry rejected the classical stylistic references adopted by the post-modernists and strove for beauty in the choice of materials and form. His work is more that of a sculptor whose creations are inhabitable by people.
•Paul Bartizan
Wholesale corruption of “the beautiful game”: FIFA’s World Cup 2026
FIFA and its New York billionaire partners rewrote the rules to subordinate the World Cup entirely to profit.
•César Uco
US measles hits a 35-year high: One front in a global unraveling of public health
On July 23, 2026, the CDC reported that the number of measles cases in the US surpassed the total for the whole of 2025.
•Benjamin Mateus
This week in history: July 27- August 2
NFL player Korey Stringer dies of heat stroke; West Virginia coal miners defy back-to-work injunction; UN Refugee Convention signed in Geneva; Philippine legislature votes for independence plebiscite.
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“It was universally understood as a revolution.” An Interview with historian Matthew Stewart on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with historian Matthew Stewart about the American Revolution, slavery, abolition, radical philosophy and the democratic and egalitarian traditions in American history.
•Tom Mackaman
Almost 400,000 flee as heatwave wildfires rip through Europe
According to interior minister Laurent Nuñez, France saw what was "probably" the biggest peacetime civilian evacuation it has ever seen.
•Robert Stevens
Australia: Victorian educators speak out at strike rally in Melbourne
“The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
•Our reporters
Job losses deepen in Australia
Beneath the surface of the official unemployment statistics, job cuts are growing as the criminal war on Iran escalates impacts on the global economy.
•Mike Head
Online public meeting: Fight NDIS cuts and Labor’s war on the working class!
The meeting will outline the socialist perspective needed to oppose the Labor government’s assault on disabled people, as part of its broader offensive against the working class.
•Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Pattern bargaining opens for 23,000 US Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs workers
The USW’s isolation of 800 locked-out BP Whiting oil refinery workers shows why steelworkers must organize independently of the union bureaucracy.
•Samuel Davidson
Australian industrial workers denounce death threat against Will Lehman
“When I saw the picture posted it made me feel sick to my stomach. It shows that the UAW leadership are scared of Will. Why else would you threaten him and try to intimidate him?”
•Industrial Workers Rank-and-File Group (Australia)
Sturgis Hospital closes in rural Michigan
The destruction of rural healthcare is neither an oversight nor ineffective policymaking. It flows from a political and economic system in crisis, where an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power can only be maintained by plundering social resources for private profit and militarism.
•Riley Ward
Mamdani, Netanyahu and the capitalist state
Mamdani’s declaration that he will not arrest Netanyahu is, as a factual matter, a reversal. As a candidate, he pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York, and as recently as July 18 he said in an interview with the New York Times that he was in “active conversation” with the city’s law department about enforcing the ICC warrant.
•Joseph Kishore
Break the collusion between the union and management at Volkswagen!
At its online meeting July 15, the VW Action Committee launched an intensive campaign to break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus and its plant officials and begin a serious fight in defence of jobs.
•Our reporters
Canadian imperialism complicit in Trump’s regime change operation in Cuba
Canadian capital has traditionally played a major role on the island, whose bourgeois nationalist regime became increasingly dependent on foreign investment from Canada and Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
•James Clayton
Execution in Wisconsin: Only the working class can stop police-state terror
The police, immigration Gestapo and military are instruments of capitalist class rule whose escalating violence can be stopped only through the independent political mobilization of the working class.
•Jacob Crosse
US bombards Iran for 13th straight night as White House plans “major” escalation
American warplanes and missiles struck Iran for a 13th consecutive night late Thursday and into Friday morning, hitting sites from the Strait of Hormuz to the Caspian Sea coast.
•Andre Damon
Australian regulator deepens attack on health workers opposing Gaza genocide
AHPRA’s decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s false definition of antisemitism will lead a widening persecution of health professionals.
•Clare Bruderlin, Richard Phillips
Southern California grocery pharmacists authorize strike
Hundreds of grocery pharmacists have authorized strike action after months of bargaining over unsafe staffing, mounting workloads and wages at Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions.
•Marc Wells, Tom Hall
5 workers killed in helmet factory fire in Sri Lanka
The inferno in the Katuwana Industrial Zone is a case of industrial murder—the direct and inevitable product of a capitalist system that subordinates human life to the relentless drive for profit.
•Wasantha Wijesiri, Dehin Wasantha
Jacobin falsifies Trotsky and historical record to promote popular front in Argentina
Jacobin’s theoretical case for subordinating the Argentine working class to Peronism rests on a falsification of Leon Trotsky's actual struggle against the Popular Front.
•Andrea Lobo
T. rex fossil sold for $50.1 million
Ever larger amounts on such “trophies” are being spent by members of the wealthy elite while support for basic science is slashed.
•Philip Guelpa
Ebola deaths pass 1,000 in the DRC, faster than any previous outbreak
Countermeasures against the Bundibugyo strain do not exist because US medical funding follows biodefense threat designation rather than the number of dead.
•Benjamin Mateus
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Sanitation, electrical and gig-economy delivery workers strike in India; Bangladeshi sugar mill workers demand higher wages and job security; Cambodian casino workers protest years of repression; Australian health, disability and parks workers strike over pay and conditions.
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Trump imposes new tariffs on Brazil: Imperialist intimidation ahead of October’s presidential election
In a sharp escalation of Washington’s imperialist offensive against Latin America, the Trump administration is openly intervening in Brazil’s October presidential election to bring fascist candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to power.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Lebanon agrees to align with US against Iran, disarm Hezbollah and accept Israeli occupation
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House forms part of a broader US–Saudi strategy to isolate Iran by eliminating its influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
•Jean Shaoul
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