 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Based on an analysis of Syriza's class character as representative of an upper middle class strata, advancing a pro-capitalist programme, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned that it would rapidly renege on its promises and impose the austerity offensive demanded by Greece's creditors—leading to the strengthening of right-wing and fascistic forces. The ex-president has increasingly tied his return to power to an open embrace of McCarthyite anticommunism. Both national teacher unions representing close to 5 million members, have given their early endorsement of Biden, displaying the deep ties between the trade union bureaucracies and the state. According to the witnesses, the Greek coast guard threw a rope to the refugee boat and initially tried to tow it away. When this apparently did not succeed, the Coast Guard boat first made a sharp turn to the right and then to the left, causing the boat to capsize. The conservative New Democracy won just over 40.5 percent of the vote, finishing almost 23 points ahead of the pseudo-left Syriza (Coalition of the Radical left—Progressive Alliance) Well-known Turkish journalist Merdan Yanardağ was detained for criticising the illegal isolation of PKK's long-time jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan. A pernicious form of political censorship is developing in German cultural circles and the media, involving the persecution of progressive artists and critics of the establishment on the basis of false accusations of anti-Semitism. Investigators were told that the decision to vent and burn five train car loads full of highly toxic vinyl chloride was not necessary at a public hearing help last week by the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the cause of and response to the February 3rd derailment of a Norfolk Southern in East Palestine, Ohio. Mass strikes are erupting across Spain on the eve of the snap elections called by the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government after its electoral debacle last month. We urge all workers to deliver a powerful "No" vote at Wednesday's contact vote and to join the NSC Rank-and-File committee to break from the shackles of the Steelworker union bureaucracy and ensure our strike is prosecuted by and for the rank-and-file. "We want to be able to support ourselves and our families, without worrying where our next meal is coming from or how we'll put gas in our cars to get to work," one worker wrote. A reader has shared this account of his experience in prison with the WSWS. It is a harrowing account which exposes the brutality of life behind bars in the United States and the depravity of society under capitalism. Body camera footage showed the police were in no danger when they unloaded over a dozen rounds into Melissa Perez's apartment, killing the mother of four and grandmother to two. Australia's prominent role in the Ukraine conflict underscores the fact that the war is morphing into a global confrontation. A key feature of the analysis is that measures taken by governments and central banks at one point in time, which appeared to be a rational response to overcome dangers to financial stability, only created the conditions for the eruption of even more severe turbulence. The Health Services Union has given workers no information about what, if any, concessions Labor has offered, but they have been told to stand aside while the union bureaucracy continues to hold backroom meetings with the government. Around 190 warehouse workers at an Australian Pharmaceutical Industries plant in Melbourne are striking in opposition to company management efforts to impose a significant real wage cut over the next four years. Five years since selecting Arlington, Virginia as the location of its second headquarters, Amazon has now opened the corporate campus. Argentine teachers' union, CETERA has called a one day protest over police repression while cargo handlers at LaGuardia, Dulles and Logan International Airport staged one-day walkouts over conditions. Teachers and other education workers should reject the attempt by the UFT bureaucracy to ram through the five year deal as the city intensifies attacks on public education. 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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