 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This exercise in kabuki theater, repeated over and over, makes clear the extent to which the US civilian political leadership has become merely a means to package decisions made by the Pentagon to the broader public. Family members of 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr. protested outside the Huntington Police Department on Monday after a video released by a witness on social media showed police shooting the double amputee multiple times. Strikers speak from "Protect the right to Strike" rallies during mass walkout of 500,000 workers nationally Britain on February 1, 2023. Thousands attended "Protect the right to Strike" rallies called by the Trades Union Congress during Wednesday's strike by 500,000 workers throughout Britain. Members of the Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the Socialist Equality Party visited picket lines and held intensive discussions with striking teachers during Wednesday's walkout. The visit takes place after South Korea's president suggested Seoul could develop its own nuclear weapons. The crackdown within the Ukrainian military on soldiers is a reflection of anxiety within the leadership that they will have insufficient cannon fodder as the war escalates. SGP candidate and nurse, Endrik Bastian, speaks at a rally of the Socialist Equality Party at Leopold Square in Berlin's working class district of Wedding. He condemns the immense cuts in the health sector in favor of rearmament. The latest Eurobarometer survey found that nearly 40 percent are experiencing problems paying for things, and one in two has said his or her standard of living has fallen. Among Stellantis workers, there is broad disdain for the bogus run-off between Ray Curry and Shawn Fain after a first round of the election that left 90 percent of the membership out of the voting. Teachers in Woburn, Massachusetts, struck for a fourth day on Thursday in the face of a court-ordered injunction, a fine of $40,000 plus an additional $5,000 to be levied for each day the strike continues. In effect, Riseborough's nomination disrupted various plans, on which, in turn, a great deal of money and prestige were riding. Media and policy outlets linked to both big business parties have attacked as over-generous or wasteful the Biden administration's proposed changes to REPAYE, which would reduce payments for some students without canceling their debts. On January 26, less than a month before a February 19 increase in the minimum wage was set to take effect for tens of thousands of Michigan workers, the Michigan Appeals Court blocked the increase by upholding a 2018 "adopt and amend" maneuver of the Republican-led legislature. The state-owned postal service has entrusted the CWU with the task of introducing changes to the delivery model that will drastically increase the workload of postal workers and slash jobs. The announcement marks a further significant stepping up of both governments' involvement in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, and the resumption of closer ties in preparation for war against China. Striking Scottish teachers join rail workers, civil servants, university lecturers and fellow educators in coordinated national strike across UK, as further NHS strikes planned; teachers' strikes continue in Hungary and Portugal over pay, staff shortages and minimum service levels; strikes and protests continue against massacre of Palestinians by Israeli army, house demolitions in Jerusalem and government authoritarian measures, with school students demonstrating in Tel Aviv; thousands of retail workers at Makro in South Africa strike over pay and conditions in year-long battle including police violence against pickets A driver explained, "Everyone is mad. The drivers are saying the union is a sell-out. Even the managers are saying they've never seen the drivers fighting against the company so hard, and against the union as well." 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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