 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The fact that thousands of people die preventable deaths in earthquakes constitutes an indictment of imperialism and the capitalist system. This week's strikes were originally to include nurses and ambulance workers in Wales. But their action was called off Friday, with the unions agreeing to ballot on a well-below inflation pay deal proposed by the Labour Party-run devolved government. Washington Post urges attack on Social Security and Medicare after debt ceiling is raised. The mass layoffs in the technology and other industries can be traced directly to the steep interest rate increases of the US Federal Reserve and other central banks over the past year. The Zelensky government is in a state of crisis as reports suggest that Ukrainian forces are struggling in Bakhmut amidst preparations of a new Russian offensive. Health based analytics estimates that COVID deaths in China have reached 1.3 million fatalities. The official Independence Day proceedings were a graphic exposure of the repressive nature of the Wickremesinghe regime that lives in fear of a mass upsurge by workers and the poor against its austerity policies. The ludicrous campaign is aimed at fostering a pro-war atmosphere, and to legitimise the escalating US-led war drive against China, which is viewed as the principal threat to American imperialist hegemony. The same government that claims to be addressing the historic injustices done to indigenous people is seeking to make the working class as a whole pay for the crisis of global capitalism. The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity. The Socialist Equality Party is standing three candidates in the March 25 New South Wales state elections: Max Boddy in the Legislative Assembly in the Bankstown electorate and Oscar Grenfell and Mike Head in the Legislative Council. 2023 will be characterized by mass opposition of teachers and school workers to intolerable working conditions and mass infection. Teachers and school workers must learn from the experiences of the past three years, having been betrayed by the trade union bureaucracies in the interest of the capitalist state, and form independent rank-and-file committees to carry forward their fight! Sunday's protest, the largest in Denmark for over a decade, is part of an upsurge of working-class opposition across Europe to the ruling elite's determination to make them bear the cost of militarism and war through social spending cuts and attacks on wages and worker rights. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine warned that fumes released into the air from the venting operation "can be deadly if inhaled." Officials designated a "red zone" around the site where people faced "grave danger of death" from breathing in the fumes. Instead of receiving medical attention while suffering an overdose inside the Harrison County Jail in October 2018, Draper was restrained, tortured and shocked with a taser by jailers and medical staff. Based on its research, a new study comes to the alarming conclusion that there is currently a shortage of 700,000 homes in Germany. There is no "progressive" side in the ruling-class faction fight over Elghawaby's appointment. Neither the proponents of Quebec's chauvinist Bill 21 nor the advocates of multiculturalism and identity politics have anything to offer the working class except war, austerity and reaction. The wage cuts can only be stopped if workers take real industrial action and unite with their brothers and sisters in France, Britain and across Europe. The immigrant men, mostly from Latin America, were protesting removal from a Manhattan hotel to a makeshift barracks-like facility far from their places of employment. Half of the Safe Schools Officers (489) are based in London where social conditions are acutely polarised. February 5 marks the 20th anniversary of Secretary of State Colin Powell's 2003 speech at the United Nations filled with lies to justify the Bush administration's criminal decision to invade Iraq. 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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