 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In America, the "land of the free," scientists fighting deadly infectious diseases must do their work under siege, amid constant threats to their safety aimed at intimidating them into silence. Blinken's trip was a cynical attempt to put the US confrontation with China on hold as a drastic US-NATO military escalation is being prepared in the war against Russia in Ukraine. The initial stages of an agreement come as European car makers worry about the consequences of the US's drive to war against China In this article, Ukrainian socialist Maxim Goldarb describes the systematic destruction of an independent judiciary by the Zelensky government and the transformation of the courts into tools for the suppression of democratic rights and dissent. The Pabloites' presentation of support for Sumar as a strategy to fight the rise of the far right is a political fraud. The mass suffering and deaths from China's second COVID-19 wave has been met with virtually complete silence in the corporate media and pseudo-left outlets internationally. The governments of Europe's southern states who enforce the European Union's Fortress Europe policy are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people over the last decade. The United Auto Workers shut down the powerful 40-day strike after pushing through a concessions-laden contract, which workers had decisively rejected two times before. A first-year resident physician describes how the Committee of Interns and Residents used undemocratic methods to limit workers' demands and betray the recent strike at Elmhurst hospital. Now that the bill has passed both houses of parliament, the government must set a referendum date, but the more people learn about the Voice, a proposed unelected institution at the heart of the existing political order, the more they distrust it. Friends described Steve Klus, a father of three and grandfather of five, as "just a typical bloke who wanted to do the right thing by everybody." A telecoms worker and Communication Workers Union member at BT Group has also written in solidarity with the fight at Royal Mail, raising that they also face brutal restructuring including a reduction of the workforce by 40 percent by 2030. While Johnson still has substantial support in the most ardent Brexiteer circles, he has fallen foul of majority sentiment in a British ruling class feeling the pressure of the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine and the international class struggle. The protest was part of the SEP's campaign to mobilise the working class against the government's austerity measures on the basis of a socialist program. Around 25,000 teachers and school workers in the state of Victoria are voting today and tomorrow on a new industrial agreement that includes nominal wage rises of just 1 percent every six months. Miners have walked off the job at Mexico's largest gold mine while 11,000 grocery workers in Canada, members of Unifor, face upcoming contract expirations. Macquarie University workers and students announce the formation of a rank-and-file committee to link their struggles against pay cutting, casualisation and intolerable workloads with other educators and workers across Australia and throughout the globe. While more than 1,000 workers at 13 nursing homes voted for strike authorization in January, the SEIU has limited the strike to only 70 workers at one facility. Two members of the newly-founded Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Sydney, Australia explain why they established the committee. Happy FKN Sunshine, directed by Derek Diorio, is a comedy-drama about a high school metal band searching for a way out in a dying Canadian mill town. National Steel Car is a particularly barbaric workplace. Three workers have died in as many years in gruesome workplace "accidents," for which no executives, or the company owner, the financial swindler Greg Aziz, have been charged or convicted. In a cruel political stunt aimed at whipping up anti-immigrant hysteria in the US, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent 42 migrants from Central and South America by bus to Los Angeles, California. While school avoidance occurs across all socio-economic groups, the public system is the least able to meet the needs of its students. 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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