 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In the aftermath of Syriza's debacle in the Greek elections on Sunday, pseudo-left groups internationally are engaged in a collective effort to cover-over their own criminal role in Syriza's betrayals, the better to prepare for new betrayals in the future. The protests also spread internationally, as Belgian police deployed water cannon against youth protesting in solidarity with Nahel's family in downtown Brussels. In a script repeated over and over again since the start of the Ukraine war in February 2022, the United States is moving to send a new set of weapons to Ukraine that it had previously ruled out. The DOL denied Lehman's complaint without explanation or addressing any of the evidence of voter suppression he had presented. The WSWS spoke on the picket line to writers and actors who support the warning sent to the SAG-AFTRA officials. With days of some of the worst air quality worldwide, Chicago's Democratic leaders provided little warning and no meaningful protection against the dangerous pollution. The US CDC issued an alert after malaria of local origin was discovered in several cases in Florida and Texas. These are the first such cases in two decades. The 1,400 workers at Hamilton, Ontario railcar manufacturer National Steel Car (NSC) launched a strike at 12:01 a.m. Thursday after voting to reject the company's provocative "best and final offer." With the Wabtec strike now in its second week, management has attempted to restart production with strikebreakers. The Teamsters for a Democratic Union presents itself to workers as a rank-and-file organization. It is no such thing. The ILWU bureaucracy saw the issuing of the strike notice not as a call to organize a genuine fight, but as a tool to reach a rotten agreement with the employers' association before the strike can begin. A successful strike is possible only if rank-and-file dockworkers seize control of their struggle from the ILWU bureaucracy. Two weeks after the Biden administration intervened on the West Coast docks to broker a tentative agreement, in response to a series of job actions conducted by rank-and-file workers in defiance of a union "no strike" agreement, tensions on the ports have not lessened. Workers had warned of the danger of a fire, but management took no preventive action that could have avoided the blaze. The power unions called the conference, not to fight privatisation but to urge workers to collaborate with management in a nationwide restructuring assault on their jobs and conditions. Berejiklian was not ousted for the reasons claimed by ICAC. Instead she was removed to clear the way for an even more rapid adoption of homicidal "let it rip" COVID policies. If the dispute is declared "intractable," the 60 maintenance engineers at Virgin Australia Regional Airlines will be stripped of the right to strike against real wage cuts proposed by the company. The central theme to emerge from a meeting of central bankers this week was that they are determined to increase interest rates further in the so-called "fight against inflation" because, while real wages are being cut, they have not gone down far enough. Detroit area Stellantis workers have responded powerfully to the statement issued by the Warren Truck Rank-and-File Committee calling for opposition to the imposition of "critical status," forcing workers onto brutal levels of mandatory overtime. In at least a dozen countries , teachers have carried out major strikes and protests over pay and conditions, in a harbinger of a wider eruption of the class struggle. The works council and the IG Metall have devoted themselves lock, stock and barrel to defending the interests of the Ford corporation and its owners. French journalists strike after a 97 percent vote into second week against appointment of far-right editor at Le Journal du Dimanche unrest continues in Iran against poverty and dictatorial regime including strike by Karun Agro Industry workers and protests by telecommunication workers and retirees; tanker drivers in Ghana hold national sit-down strike over dangerous conditions on roads threatening life and limb The government has until July 6 to lodge an appeal. While it is unlikely to be heard until the autumn, the Tories intend to have their legislation in place, up to and including the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights if that is required. 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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