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 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Workers across the United States and internationally must mobilize to the defense of the 28 Google workers fired for their opposition to war. The police state-type action, directed by Columbia President Dr. Minouche (Nemat) Shafik, came the day after she testified before a McCarthyite Congressional hearing about outlawing opposition to the Israeli genocide. The United States and its European allies announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran on Thursday, deepening their participation in a spiraling war in the Middle East. The ever-increasing US debt, now on an unstainable and "unprecedented" trajectory, is a key factor putting a question mark over the role of the dollar as the global currency. Alex Garland's film provides violent images of a civil war in America, divorced from any examination of the social forces that would produce such a conflict. That all those auditioning for office before the ruling elite must now affirm their readiness to kill millions and destroy the planet is a stark warning. No matter who is prime minister and which party they lead, the working class in Britan, like workers internationally, confronts a single party of war. With the final adoption of the Common European Asylum System on April 10, the European Parliament has effectively suspended the right to asylum and turned the immigration policies of the extreme right into law. After losing previous votes in 2014 and 2019, the UAW has embraced the support of the Biden administration, which is seeking to mobilize US unions behind the war drive. Labor Notes is playing an important political role in the attempts by the bourgeoisie to head off a political movement in the working class which escapes its control. In an explosive hearing, four former senior soldiers in the D.C. National Guard, none of whom were formally interviewed by the January 6 House Select Committee, accused US Army Generals Walter Piatt and Charles Flynn, and senior civilian Pentagon officials, of blocking them from protecting Congress as it was being overrun by Trump radicals. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in State Department v. Muñoz, one of the most important immigration cases in the recent period. If Tamil Nadu has become India's most industrialized state, it is because the DMK and its arch-rival, the AIADMK, have rolled out the red carpet for domestic and global capital. The measure is part of an escalating assault on democratic rights by the ruling classes in every country to block political opponents, particularly the Socialist Equality Party and independents, from contesting elections. The complicity of the unions in Labor's latest move to deny aged care workers a long-awaited pay rise underscores the need for workers to build their own organisations. Honest mistakes and miscalculations have left tens of thousands of the poorest people in the country owing huge sums of money. Almost a thousand are being demanded repayments of £5,000-£20,000. The lecture by Nick Beams on April 28 will provide the political weapons required by young people and workers who want to take up the fight for a socialist and revolutionary perspective against the genocide and the broader eruption of militarism and war. "We need a party that sticks to a revolutionary line and doesn't just advocate for reform, because whenever you talk about reform, it essentially means you end up capitulating to those in power." In a culmination of nearly two years of betrayals, the Teamsters union called off the 18-month strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. None of their striking members got their jobs back, and the Teamsters agreed to dissolve the local union. Following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore after being hit by a container ship, crew members aboard the MV Dali now risk potential criminal liability, even as the ship's owners use 1851 maritime law to limit their responsibility. Clinicians say TeamHealth, the private equity owned firm subordinates health care to the company's financial bottom line. One-day general strike in Greece against pay 20 percent lower than 15 years ago and 10 percent unemployment; autoworkers and other sectors in one-day strike in Turin, Italy against mass layoffs joining 12,000 in protest; Kenyan striking doctors defy state intimidation and sack threat in fight for more staff, pay and better conditions About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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