 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The fact that millions of people continue to be infected with COVID-19 and thousands die each week is now met with total indifference by the ruling elites, with virtually no reporting on this deepening world crisis. In a town hall meeting, a hydrologist warned residents, "You're in a situation where you're going to be dealing with this for the rest of your lives if you stay here." As voting in the second round of the UAW national officers election comes to an end, a scandal has broken out that exposes both the fraudulent character of the election and the ongoing rampant corruption and patronage within the UAW bureaucracy. With the March 1 contract expiration for over 6,000 UAW members at Caterpillar fast approaching, workers are increasingly calling for a counter-offensive to win back major improvements in wages, benefits and working conditions. The extreme right-wing agenda of the leading political figures behind the "peace petition" in Germany is a warning: A movement for peace cannot be built with militarists, nationalists and right-wing extremists. Newly released mortality statistics reveal that Turkey's government, implicated in tens of thousands of deaths by its handling of long-predicted earthquakes, has covered up mass deaths from COVID-19. The first human death from the current bird flu raises concern among health authorities about the potential of human-to-human transmission. These extra-judicial killings in broad daylight by the Middle East's strongest war machine in a busy downtown area are nothing short of a war crime by the newly installed coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The struggle must be expanded through the formation of rank-and-file committees representing all sections of the campus workforce and the students. All the demands by University of Michigan graduate student workers have been rejected by the campus administration as a May 1 contract deadline approaches. The Florida governor signed Donald Dillbeck's death warrant on the same day that he floated a change to state law that would allow a person to be sentenced to death after a non-unanimous vote of a jury. Body camera footage of the incident shows that the official police report of the incident was a lie and that deputies murdered Ward without reason. While virtually limitless funds are being allocated to the war machine, governments proclaim that there is no money for essential social services such as healthcare and education. About 60 people, including fishermen, farmers, daily wage workers, youth and housewives listened to SEP candidates outline the party's socialist program. The tragedies in Panama and Mexico are not mere "traffic accidents" but part and parcel of monstrous social crimes committed by US imperialism. The unions are attempting to hoodwink workers with demagogic denunciations of President Wickremesinghe and appeals for cosmetic changes to his government's austerity measures. The race-obsessed middle class layers which Hannah-Jones epitomizes are fundamentally fearful of and hostile to the growing movement of the working class. The last thing they want is for the party to end when there is yet so much money to be made. The WSWS spoke with Maan Alkaisi, a spokesman for the families of some of the 115 people who died in the collapse of the poorly constructed CTV building. Twelve years on, no one has been held accountable for this avoidable tragedy. According to a report by the Australia Institute, Australian businesses increased their prices by a total of $160 billion a year over and above their higher expenses for labour, taxes, and other inputs. The film is a "reimagining" of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru (To Live), which in turn was originally inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886). The CAQ government is proposing wage "increases" totalling 9 percent spread over five years, although prices rose 6.8 percent last year and continue to rise at an annual rate of close to 6 percent in 2023. 60,000 Indian contract teachers demonstrate for higher pay; Australia: Spotless/Downer workers strike; NSW ambulance paramedics impose bans for a pay rise. The rosy picture painted by the UCU of "real progress" is at odds with what details have been made public by the universities and other unions. 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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