 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress back the administration's plans for stepped up military operations against Russia and China and in the Middle East. The ongoing assault on workers' jobs underscores the urgent need for the rank and file to organize a common fight against firings and unsafe conditions enforced by the company with the UAW bureaucracy's complicity. On Wednesday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held its first hearing, with all participants, Democratic and Republican, seeking to promote the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China as a possible explanation for the origins of the pandemic. On Wednesday, the Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the World Socialist Web Site co-hosted a well-attended and powerful meeting calling on Caterpillar workers to vote "no" on the UAW-Caterpillar sellout agreement and to prepare for a strike. The sellout deal that the UAW is attempting to impose at Caterpillar is the latest in an unbroken chain of betrayals by the UAW based on its bankrupt nationalist and pro-company orientation. The meeting of EU defence ministers in Stockholm on Wednesday was all about NATO's escalation of the war against Russia. The aim was to quickly provide the Ukrainian army with massive amounts of ammunition in order to repel the Russian army on the front in eastern Ukraine and to move on to the counter-offensive. While governments are expending enormous resources on rearmament and war, they are neglecting the most urgent needs of the broad masses of the population. The victims of the earthquake are being given only paltry handouts. The series, published on the front pages of the country's largest newspapers, demanded nothing less than total war against China. By "national needs," the Australian Universities Accord discussion paper means the private profit, geo-strategic and war requirements of the capitalist class. Hundreds of heavily-armed police officers and army soldiers, were mobilised on Tuesday and Wednesday to stop students protesting against government austerity and attacks on democratic rights. Anger at the fascist attack on two high school students was further antagonised by the pro-fascist reaction of the education minister. The Public Order Emergency Commission has recommended the police and national-security apparatus, which the Convoy crisis revealed are chock-full of far-right sympathizers, be given increased powers; and that the federal government have greater latitude to suspend basic democratic rights. The report attempts to present Louisville Metro Police Department's conduct as merely the case of poor training, inadequate facilities and equipment and a lack of mental health support for officers. As protests against the proposed militarized "Cop City" training facility have grown, authorities are resorting to increasingly repressive measures, charging 41 persons so far under the state's "domestic terrorism" laws. The liquidation of Silvergate, the first bank failure since 2020, is significant because it was a major conduit for the flow of funds into the crypto system. With Michigan under Democratic Party control for the first time in 40 years, the new budget enshrines billions for big business, no relief for workers. The film's drama takes place in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1944. Jacob Heym learns by chance that the Soviet army is not far away. New laws that could be signed by Governor Ron DeSantis would eviscerate public education, roll back abortion access, and expand the death penalty. The two cyclones which hit within days of each other have affected 80 percent of the population and left thousands homeless. Doctors on strike since January in Community of Madrid, Spain, joined by medics in Valencia demanding improved pay and staffing levels; Palestinian teachers in West Bank into second week of pay strike while protests continue over government-backed murders of Palestinians; South African health workers walkout over pay joined by some public sector workers defying government interdict The 22-year-old bomber, Salman Abedi, worked with Islamist fighters who were trained, armed, and financed by the British state and NATO to topple Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and install a puppet regime. 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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