 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. More disasters and more cover-ups are inevitable as long as social decision-making is left in the hands of a tiny capitalist oligarchy. Amid this preventable social catastrophe, with many thousands of people still under the rubble, the Erdoğan government is seeking to cover up its responsibility and normalize life. "In Antakya, the number of my acquaintances who lost their lives is much higher than the number of survivors." In Frankfurt/Main, Munich, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen, air traffic was paralysed on Friday. At the same time, strikes continued by workers in municipal public services in Leipzig and Frankfurt. If the US media now joins the Biden administration's silence on the Nord Stream bombings, it is because they too have been exposed by Hersh's revelations. Starmer told President Zelensky that "should there be a change of government" in the UK, "the support for Ukraine will remain the same." The newly created "stormtrooper" brigades will include the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and be tasked with "liberating" all of Ukraine from Russian forces. Biden's foreshadowed attendance at the Pacific Islands Forum would be the first by a sitting US president and a major step-up in direct US presence in the region. The pseudo-left party is burying the major issues facing working people, including war and the disastrous "let it rip" COVID policies. For the 10th consecutive week, the wave of mass demonstrations and roadblocks across Peru has continued defying brutal repression by the US-backed coup regime of Dina Boluarte. Canada's Liberal government secretly "reinterpreted"—in reality rewrote—the Emergencies Act to arrogate authoritarian powers. It did so on the basis of a secret legal opinion that even the Clerk of the Privy Council cautioned was "vulnerable to challenge." At the beginning of 2022, food inflation in Malaysia was under 4 percent but rose sharply over the year to reach 7 percent in November, with some food items increasing as much as 40 percent. In the move towards electrification, Ford and other US automakers are relying on the complicity of the UAW, which has shown it is willing to agree to substandard agreements in exchange for expanding its dues base. The TWU's no-strike pledge is an attempt to demobilise and shut down the discontent among bus workers. The family of Anthony "Tony" Mitchell, a 33-year-old white man who was tortured for two weeks inside the Walker County jail before succumbing to his injuries, is suing over a dozen jail staff in connection with the death. Facing staggering workloads and grossly inferior pay, Legal Aid workers in New York City voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action. There is anger and opposition among Amazon workers over the impending closure of the Shakopee MSP5 warehouse, expressed in a February 12 protest. In the course of his stay in Moscow and Petrograd, Grosz took part in celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution and also attended sessions of the Fourth Congress of the Comintern. Congenital syphilis, a disease that was on its way to eradication, is once again reemerging along with other sexually transmitted infections. India: 1 million West Bengal government workers strike; Nepal: Public transport workers protest police bullying; Australia: Cleanaway truck drivers strike for higher pay in Sydney; New Zealand secondary school teachers to strike over pay Larry Eugene Price Jr., 51, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and PTSD, with a reported IQ of 55, was starved to death while in detention. Events in Knowsley are a warning of what will come if the ceaseless flow of toxic anti-migrant agitation and Islamophobia from the Conservative government and the Labour Party is not countered by the development of a socialist movement in the working class. 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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