 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. What has begun in Washington is not a repeat of previous conflicts over budget policy, but a fundamental turn by the US ruling elite to the destruction of long-established benefits like Social Security and Medicare. The Iowa bill represents the latest step in the campaign to dismantle child labor protections, amid a surge of child labor violations across the United States. As all the lies of the imperialist and Ukrainian war propaganda are blown to pieces, the fate of the Zelensky regime is becoming increasingly precarious. Linksjugend (Left Youth) counts among the organisations belonging to the Left Party that aggressively support NATO's proxy war against Russia. The growth of the class struggle across the Nordic region and its breaking out of the corporatist mechanisms that have suppressed class tensions for decades is inseparable from the transformation of the entire region into a major front in the imperialist powers' war on Russia. Workers denounced unsafe conditions at the GM plant after a young worker was nearly crushed by a falling piece of heavy machinery. The IYSSE urges Rutgers academic workers to build an independent rank-and-file committee to take leadership of the struggle out of the hands of the union bureaucracy. The company's CEO, Elon Musk, claims the spacecraft will one day ferry humans to Mars. Wickremesinghe is banking on the enthusiastic support of big business, the media and sections of the upper-middle class over his so-called ability to secure the IMF $2.9 billion bailout loan. South Africa, in comparison to its most important trading partners, is a leaf in the gale-force maelstrom of the global economy. The nation's high court declined to hear Dennis Hope's appeal of a Court of Appeals decision to dismiss his Eighth Amendment challenge to his imprisonment in solitary confinement for nearly three decades. The first substantive policy of the new Labor government in Australia's largest state is to prevent working people from getting tested to see if they have a potentially deadly illness. The number of people accessing homelessness services in Queensland has risen by 22 percent in just four years—the fastest rate nationally. Public sector strike in Greece as workers demand permanent contracts for part-time workers; Stockholm commuter train drivers hold three-day wildcat strike to defend guards, are disowned by union; in Nigeria, aviation workers walked out April 17 over pay and conditions while ExxonMobil workers struck over pay halting oil exports at four terminals 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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