 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. A flood of reports in the US media have demolished the White House's claims the US and its allies were not "responsible" for the attacks and the US media's efforts to blame Russia for the sabotage. Opposition by 7,000 Caterpillar workers continues to grow against a contract proposal brought back by the United Auto Workers that would cut their real pay by 20 percent or more over the six-year life of their contract. Hundeds of thousands walked out on strike and protested in Greece Wednesday, amid a surge of anger over the deaths of 57 people in the February 28 Tempi train crash. With refineries, energy facilities and mass transit on strike, the prospect of a total cutoff of fuel supplies that would completely shut down the economy is looming. Jeep workers at the Toledo Assembly Complex spoke out in defense of workers at the nearby Dana Driveline Plant who have been unjustly fired for reporting exploitation, wage theft, sexual harassment and other abuses. The "Nation Alliance" opposition coalition named Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu its candidate in this year's presidential election. Factories are halting production, power supplies are being cut, crops are threatened and medical supplies drying up because of widespread dollar shortages in less developed economies. The coalition and IPAN, with which it is affiliated, do not advance an anti-war perspective. Instead they are calling for a major build-up of the Australian military on a more "independent" basis. Bank accounts are so tight that over half of the young people surveyed went without eating for a whole day at some point during the past twelve months. The "six point plan," which commits the railroad to practically nothing concrete, is meant in part to give CEO Alan Shaw talking points at a Senate hearing on the derailment today. Temple University has demanded that striking grad students pay back the sum of their tuition for the semester beginning today. The Communications Workers Union bureaucracy is already playing the leading role in implementing the initial stages of the restructure, which threatens to destroy thousands of jobs. The CWU re-entered backroom negotiations with Royal Mail at the arbitration service ACAS, which have produced a blueprint for suppressing strike action and paved the way for increased workloads and reduced staffing levels. While there is enormous anger and willingness to fight among workers, who are not prepared to accept further cuts to real wages, the service sector union Verdi is doing everything to prevent a broad mobilization. Aftersun, because it provides an honest picture, does suggest broader things as well, whether Wells is fully conscious of it or not. The campaign to scrap the public holiday has gone hand-in-hand with a massive propaganda campaign to portray Denmark as under immediate threat from a Russian attack and therefore forced to arm itself to the teeth. Representing 80 percent of Scottish teachers, the EIS is set on suppressing their struggle as soon as possible 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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