 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The move to keep wage increases below inflation is part of a broader ruling class strategy, both in the US and internationally, as the bourgeoisie seeks to offload the costs of the economic crisis and war onto workers. The decision by US financial authorities and the Biden administration to bail out wealthy uninsured depositors at SVB and the failed Signature Bank, citing "systemic risk," and the Fed's decision to provide increased liquidity staunched one crisis, at least temporarily, only to create another. The speeches at Wednesday's rally made clear that all those unions still engaged in strike action are seeking similar sellouts. The Willow Project operated by Conoco-Phillips seeks to extract 600 million barrels of oil over the next 30 years, adding substantially to dominance of fossil fuels in US energy production. The combination of heavy rain, floods, mudslides and intense snowfall have killed 18 people so far this year in California. While workers fight the government's attacks, the unions are doing everything they can to keep this movement chained to the parliamentary opposition parties that endorse the IMF's austerity measures. Regardless of any tactical differences over the use of the "notwithstanding clause," all sections of the Canadian ruling class—Quebec sovereignists as well as federalists—defend this provision as they increasingly resort to authoritarian methods to suppress growing working class resistance. With Fiji's ruling elite sharply divided, Bainimarama's arrest is part of an ongoing power struggle between two former coup leaders amid an escalating social crisis. The government has sought to suppress public discussion about the country's worst mass shooting and the connection between shooter Brenton Tarrant's fascist ideology and the positions promoted by the political establishment. Emboldened by the Republican Party and abetted by sympathetic local and federal police agencies, Nazis, Proud Boys and other fascists continue to harass, threaten, and in some cases, carry out violent attacks against LGBTQ, Jews and other minorities and leftists on a near daily basis. The deal ending the strike codifies poverty-level wages for 750 graduate and teaching assistants represented by the TUGSA union. Betrayal in the City (1976) is one of Imbuga's most popular plays, long required reading in Kenya's secondary education system. Around 250,000 workers and students were stranded for hours last Wednesday afternoon in Australia's most populous city due to a fault in the network's outmoded communications system. 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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