 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Sunday, April 30, the International Committee of the Fourth International, the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and the World Socialist Web Site will hold an on-line global rally to celebrate May Day 2023. Israel's furious bombardment takes place amid escalating tensions following the police's deliberately provocative attacks on tens of thousands of Palestinian worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform. On Thursday, the investigative journalism website ProPublica published an extensive and damning report documenting the fact that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades enjoyed luxurious vacations paid for by Harlan Crow, a billionaire far-right Republican donor. While Ukrainian fascists like Stepan Bandera are today glorified by the Ukrainian government and its NATO backers, the atrocities his followers perpetrated are deeply engrained in the consciousness of the Ukrainian working class. The Kremlin's response to the strike of workers at the online retail giant indicates just how insecure the Putin regime feels. All the parties in the governing coalition have supported ramming through in record time 15 pieces of legislation that further enshrine a police state. This review will document what is known about the science and impacts of Long COVID, the lessons that should have been drawn from previous post-viral illnesses, and the refusal of world capitalism to address this massive and ongoing social catastrophe. This vindicates the Parti de l'égalité socialiste, who said that to bring down Macron, workers must organise into committees of action, independent of the union bureaucracies. We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus. The March jobs report from the US Labor Department showed a slowdown of job creation and the ongoing lag of workers' wages behind price inflation. An officer with the US Parks Police ambushed Dalaneo Martin in his car as it was in park and the latter was asleep. The high rents are already unaffordable for millions. The proportion of affordable housing and social housing on the housing market is falling rapidly. The exhibition has evoked immense interest and enthusiasm both in the Netherlands and well beyond its borders. The collapse of Porter Davis Homes leaves 1,700 buyers with unfinished builds, while some subcontractors, including bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers and painters, have not been paid since before Christmas. India: Public sector bank workers protest privatisation and outsourcing; Odisha state contract teachers demand permanent jobs; Australian building workers protest against repressive industrial laws and for higher pay; Melbourne Zoo workers begin industrial action Health sector unions have endorsed Australian government's "let it rip" policies, aiding and abetting this socially criminal assault on public health and the disastrous increase in patients catching COVID-19 while in hospital. 40,000 workers were initially involved in the action, 20,000 at Network Rail and 20,000 at 14 train operation companies. The Network Rail strike ended with a rotten deal organised by the RMT last month. The desperate appeals for "unity" made throughout the meeting could not disguise the pro-company agenda of the Communication Workers Union bureaucracy. While Galen Weston Jr. has raked in millions, Canadians have weathered what has been described as a "food inflation storm," with prices rising at rates not seen in more than 40 years. 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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