 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Eight months after a mass uprising chased Sri Lanka's hated President Gotabhaya Rajapakse from power, the working class is coming into headlong confrontation with his successor, the notorious IMF-enforcer and pro-US imperialist stooge, Ranil Wickremesinghe. As the United States surged troops, ships and weapons to the Pacific, Congress held a prime-time hearing Tuesday aimed at promoting public hostility toward China to justify the United States' belligerent military actions on the other side of the world. Workers must decisively reject this filthy pro-war, anti-China campaign. which has been orchestrated by high-placed leaks from CSIS, Canadian imperialism's premier intelligence agency. The large abstention in the second round of voting reflects the mass alienation of workers from the UAW apparatus. Workers who spoke to the WSWS responded with immediate anger and suspicion to the announcement. The intention of the attackers is to provoke a wider conflagration and create the basis for stepped up ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the West Bank and possibly an all-out war by Israel. The struggle at Refap raises the possibility of a major strike during the first months of the Workers Party (PT) administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Hundreds of students and community members rallied for the striking workers as the university has sought to punish and threaten any acts of support At least 89 departments have reported plans to implement cuts, while significantly reducing graduate enrollment and teaching assistant positions. Currently, some 43 million borrowers in the United States owe over $1.7 trillion in student federal loan debt representing a massive and looming financial burden for a significant section of the working class. The Democratic Party administration of Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have responded to the collapse of the power infrastructure by calling on the energy monopolies to give customers a pathetic $35 credit on an upcoming electric bill. A document submitted by Ford reveals the the company plans to pay most workers at its planned battery plant in Marshall, Michigan $20 an hour, barely above the minimum wage level required to purchase basic necessities. Smithline asserts that she was pressured by actress Evan Rachel Wood and Wood's associates "to make accusations of rape and assault ... that were not true." Under the guise of curbing problem gambling, Labor and the Coalition are proposing policies that will do nothing to limit its impact, let alone address the social crisis driving the growth of gambling in working-class areas. At the beginning of February, the obligation to wear a mask in buses and trains was ended throughout Germany, along with the Coronavirus Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance. According to a report by the Bertelsmann Foundation, 2.88 million children under the age of 18 and 1.55 million young adults under the age of 25 were considered poor or "at risk of poverty" in 2021. Begum travelled to Syria from London in 2015, aged just 15, with two friends to become a bride of an Islamic State fighter 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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