 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Trump speaks not just for himself. A substantial section of the ruling class is convinced that it confronts a massive social movement of workers that poses the greatest danger to its wealth and privileges. In the days following the collapse of a coup attempt by the fascistic warlord, ex-convict and billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary Wagner army, the Kremlin has made clear that it will allow the insurrectionists to continue their operations in neighboring Belarus. Despite receiving dozens of specific tips warning of an imminent attack on Congress, neither the FBI nor the Department of Homeland Security issued a threat assessment prior to January 6. While the Democrats are hailing the ruling as the salvation of democracy, workers would make a fatal error if they placed any confidence in the Supreme Court or looked to it to defend their basic rights. The election of Robert Sesselmann, the candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as Sonneberg district administrator in the federal state of Thuringia casts a spotlight on the growing fascist danger in Germany. Of a group of 61 people who were sailing in a rubber boat from Africa on their way to the Canary Islands, only 24 have survived. The attempt by Lula and the BRICS countries, particularly China and Russia, to counter US and European hegemony through a "multipolar world" is bringing the world closer to global conflagration. Tony Robson emphasised that voting No was not enough. The problem of removing the union bureaucracy had to be tackled directly. This was the importance of the PWRFC's fight for rank-and-file committees on the shop floor. ABF's and the Teamsters proposed wage scale is worse than even the leaked employer proposed contract at UPS, which has a four-year wage progression system even for part-time and lower-tier workers. Outraged over low pay and long hours, workers at Tenneco are the latest to say "no" to management-friendly UAW contracts. Dockworkers at the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert and other locations on Canada's west coast have been in a legal strike position since June 24 after an overwhelming 99.25 percent strike authorization. The elevation of ethnic criteria is a reactionary mechanism for rationing health care among working people of every race who depend on the underfunded and over-stressed public system. The call for Indian Tamil plantation workers to be recognized as a separate nation is to block a unified struggle of the working class against worsening social conditions, while boosting the power and privileges of the Indian Tamil elites. As devastating cuts to public schools are taking place across the US, two Rank-and-File Committees comprised of educators, school workers and parents met to discuss how to expand their work. Former Liberal-National Coalition prime ministers, as well as Labor Party and trade union leaders, have lionised Crean as a "giant" of the "labour movement" and a "servant" of the nation. Since the return to work, management has used the sellout deal signed by the UAW to step up its attack on workers. Central bankers could be faced with a stark choice between lifting interest rates in the so-called fight against inflation and risking a financial crash in heavily indebted countries. Tippett "wrote music from a perspective of understanding the complexity of life in the 20th century." In Texas, the average daily high temperatures in Texas have increased by 2.4 degrees — 0.8 degrees per decade — since 1993 Further education lecturers in Glasgow and Edinburgh are on strike this week against management's decision to remove 175 posts, of which up to 75 will be compulsory redundancies. Staff are striking four days a week. 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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