 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The political explosion in Israel is another expression of a widening global revolutionary crisis of capitalism. Worker delegates at the meeting described harrowing conditions at their workplaces, recounted the deadly and ongoing impact of COVID-19, denounced the indifference and complicity of the pro-corporate UAW bureaucracy, and spoke passionately in support of the construction of a worldwide movement of the working class. The convention takes place amid an unprecedented crisis in the UAW bureaucracy and after the new president, Shawn Fain, has denounced "unreasonably high bargaining or organizing expectations." A political movement must be built among masses of rank-and-file workers and youth, independent of the union bureaucracies, to bring down Macron. The EVG rail workers' union has called the strike in response to the widespread willingness of workers to fight, who, in view of skyrocketing prices, are not willing to accept further cuts in real wages. In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district. A train derailment in North Dakota released liquid asphalt and ethylene glycol, while another train carrying iron ore derailed just hours later in San Bernadino, California. A veteran worker at the Marathon Galveston Bay refinery sent the following report on the February 28 death of contract worker Alfredo Reyes. The meeting addressed the origins of the war, the capitalist crisis and growing class struggle, and the political perspective required to confront the war. Police told the media that the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was a former student and had created a manifesto naming the school prior to the shooting. Recognition is growing that the immediate source of major financial problems now coming to the surface is the measures undertaken by the Fed to try to quell previous crises. On Monday night, the union held an online membership meeting, only 45 minutes long, to try to limit critical questions from the floor and to try to sell the terms of the contract to the membership. The concessions heaped upon LA teachers and school workers may as well have been worked out in the local leadership of the DSA's Los Angeles Branch. The president accuses teachers and principals of taking students hostage, but in reality, the working masses have been made hostages to the IMF with the Wickremesinghe government acting as its policeman. On behalf of the family, Ruth Perry's sister, Julia Waters, said Ruth's death was the "direct result" of the "deeply harmful" inspection and was in "a direct result of the pressure put on her by the process and outcome" of the inspection. Among those who spoke out were victims of last year's floods in Lismore, a regional city, where thousands of residents are still living in substandard accommodation more than a year after the floods. Albanese's Labor government is desperate to use the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to put a progressive, even humanitarian, gloss to its reactionary, pro-business and militarist agenda. The media misinformation was aimed at covering up the crisis of the two-party system and trying to ensure a "stable" government to implement budget austerity. With the CHIPS and Science Act, US universities are being drawn ever more directly into the war preparations against China. This zombie apocalypse drama marks something of a new high-water mark for savage violence and self-assured misanthropy in the entertainment industry. These parties' support for the Nation Alliance candidate, who is as anti-worker and pro-imperialist as Erdogan, vindicates the Socialist Equality Group's analysis of these pseudo-left forces. 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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