 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Facing the failure of Ukraine's "spring counteroffensive," the United States is moving to escalate its own intervention in the conflict. The majority of the dead are likely still trapped in the hold at the bottom of one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean, with the search called off Friday night. The sabotage by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy of the courageous strike by workers at the Toledo, Ohio, area auto battery plant is a warning to autoworkers facing their own contract battle this September. While exact details of the tentative agreement are being kept under wraps by the PMA, ILWU, and the White House, what few items have emerged portend a massive betrayal. The margin reflects a determined mood among rank-and-file UPS workers, but the Teamsters bureaucracy tried to sabotage this determination by suppressing turnout in the strike vote. The proposed deal would force New York City transit worker retirees onto private Medicare Advantage plans that frequently deny coverage. While social media platforms by no means give a panoramic view of COVID-related tragedies, they provide a glimpse into the vast scale of the social crime committed by the lifting of Zero-COVID. The Lula government has joined the campaign to vilify Waters, a leading international antiwar activist, going one better by threatening to jail him for his performances in Brazil. The Jacobin interview unintentionally provides a damning exposure of the GEO's betrayal of the strike and the DSA's role in supporting and covering up this betrayal. Mayor Eric Adams has announced that there will be budget cuts of hundreds of millions of dollars next year that will result in the firing of over 500 school crossing guards, and drastically cut the city's pre-K program. The population has been deluged with lurid sexual misconduct allegations for years, most based on junking the presumption of innocence. For MeToo supporters, a single article questioning their narrative is too much. Amid the intelligence-agency fomented furor over supposed Chinese interference in Canadian elections, the Canadian state has intensified its efforts to compel the country's universities to cease scientific cooperation with Chinese academics. The manufactured furore presages a return to the reactionary atmosphere and methods of the 1950s anti-communist witch-hunts to prepare for a vast escalation of imperialist war abroad and class war at home. Broadway artists, actors and singers showed their support for the writers, who face wage cuts, the casualization of their labor and the threat of artificial intelligence. Reject NTEU sellout at University of Sydney and form rank-and-file committees for a broader struggle Genuine rank-and-file committees are essential to defeat a shocking betrayal at USyd and for a broader struggle against worsening real wage cuts, casualisation and intolerable conditions. The cooperative founded by the Train Drivers' Union (GDL) is a trap and marks a new low in the transformation of trade unions into tools of big corporations. India: Tamil Nadu: Lotte Choco Pie workers' strike enters third month; Punjab electricity distribution workers fight pay anomalies; Australia: New South Wales paramedics and patient transfer officers impose more bans in pay dispute 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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