 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers' jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle-class executives who occupy the union's misnamed "Solidarity House" and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file. Ongoing attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank make it clear that the pogrom-like rampage by hundreds of Israeli settlers on the town of Huwara on February 26, while Israeli troops stood by, is part of a broader campaign of ethnic cleansing. Seventy years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at the age of 73. To the extent that the worst defeats of the working class in the 20th century can be attributed to the crimes and betrayals of an individual, that person is Stalin. The Greek Civil Servants' Confederation (ADEDY) has announced a 24-hour nationwide strike in the public sector for March 8 and a mass demonstration in the capital, Athens. Strikes have been announced for the same day by the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation (PNO) and the Greek Primary Teachers' Federation (DOE). Barely a year after the Socialist Party (PS) won a majority in the Portuguese parliament, strikes and protests are erupting across the country. The Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the WSWS for a democratic forum to analyze the UAW's sellout tentative agreement, and outlining the strategy to mobilize workers in the US and internationally in a common fight back. "It only takes one person to get the word out. Now other people want to join in and stand up because nobody wants to do it alone, and we have had enough." Due to the Labour-Greens government's removal of measures to stop COVID-19 from spreading, New Zealand experienced its biggest annual increase in deaths since the 1918 flu pandemic. Democrats in the Tennessee House voted for the anti-trans bill and played a role in the campaign leading up to the passing of the law. Allan's family says at least 12 bullets were fired into his car after officers attempted to pull him from the vehicle for alleged non-compliance. The 2023 school year began in late January and early February with public schools facing an unprecedented crisis. Ex-minister Stuart Robert's extraordinary admission to the robodebt inquiry laid bare the reality that all governments, Labor and Liberal-National, lie and deceive the population on every front. Sri Lankan SEP election meeting in central plantation district denounces cancellation of local polls SEP and plantation action committee members campaigned at tea estates around Upcot and in Maskeliya town to build last month's open-air meeting. One young person said: "The working class are paying and giving money to the government and the government is giving it to the richer people so the richer people are going to get richer, and the people who are working have to work harder, longer, just to support that." The preoccupation with identity (in the parlance of the festival and other such events, "diversity") issues, sex and race, was in evidence throughout. The Yoon administration is reviving old police-state measures in an effort to silence unrest and opposition especially in the working class as social conditions deteriorate. A third storm since February 23 hit Metro Detroit on Friday and knocked out power again for more than 220,000 customers of DTE Energy and Consumers Energy. Over the weekend hundreds of nurses in Toronto, Canada marched to demand improved wages, better working conditions and staffing. We have made it clear with our warning strikes and protests in recent weeks that we want to fight for our demands. But we must prepare ourselves for the fact that the Verdi union will do everything it can to prevent industrial action. 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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