 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. As with every weather disaster or public health crisis the capitalist ruling elite and their political representatives have proven incapable and uninterested in meeting the needs of the population as the smoke billowed in. On Wednesday, the Guardian published an article in which former NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen raised the prospect that NATO members would deploy their own ground troops in Ukraine. The ruling elites through their corrupt media outlets are attempting to destroy Waters and intimidate other artists, performers and intellectuals from speaking out. This is a desperate and systematic attack on freedom of speech and artistic expression. All of the actions of the UAW bureaucracy throughout the strike fly in the face of the pious and hypocritical claims of Fain and Co. to be instituting a new era of "transparency" and "democracy" in the union. The company announced that the second shift at one of its facilities was canceled after a sizable number of workers called out, citing concerns about the air quality at the facility. The struggle against the pension cut is a political struggle against the capitalist state, and to wage it, workers have to fight to bring down Macron. Workers and young people marching across France against Emmanuel Macron's illegitimate pension reform must form rank-and-file committees independent of the pro-capitalist trade unions. Amidst continuing slowdowns on West Coast ports, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su was "engaged" in talks with the port operators and the dockworkers union. The RECOVER initiative trial begins the attempt to define Long COVID through symptom-based scoring, which will hopefully assist in future studies of the disease, but could be misused by insurance companies to deny coverage. Education and research funding authorized by the CHIPS Act in question as US Congress enacts sweeping cuts to domestic spending. While dressed up as a climate crisis measure, the agreement is above all to ensure US access to key minerals vital for a broad range of applications, including military, as it intensifies its war drive against Beijing. Prime Minister Modi and his railway minister are involved in a damage-control exercise, worried that train disaster is undermining the government's global image and impacting on its fortunes in next year's elections. The SEP/IYSSE public meeting will elaborate on the program and perspective of international socialism that the working class needs to fight the government's austerity measures. The jet, a Cessna Citation carrying several passengers, later crashed in the Northern Virginia wilderness as it ran out of fuel. The bill is tailored so that it only applies to Harris County, the state's largest and heavily Democratic This letter by Carolyn Kennett protests against NTEU officials blocking her and a fellow Committee for Public Education member from moving a resolution at a stopwork meeting at Sydney's Macquarie University, calling for a unified struggle against pay cutting, casualisation and restructuring. The latest OPEC+ meeting was held just two months after the cartel announced production cuts in order to sustain prices which have proved largely ineffective in halting the slide. This is the second successive cut to the real wages of low-paid workers delivered under the Albanese Labor government, which reiterated its opposition to an "across-the-board" pay rise in line with inflation. The UCP's re-election is a damning indictment of the right-wing record of the trade union-sponsored NDP and of the unions' role in suppressing the class struggle. Thousands of migrants will be housed on barges, converted cruise ships and two former military bases in Essex, and Lincolnshire. 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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