 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The prostration of Democratic Socialists of America congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Democratic Party and Biden administration was on display yet again in an interview published Wednesday by the New York Times. What is being prepared is not a contract, it is a death warrant for hundreds of thousands of auto jobs in North America and millions around the world. As the clock ticks down to the September contract expirations for 170,000 US and Canadian autoworkers, plans for a jobs massacre of historic proportions are being concealed from the rank and file. The extent of the flooding, destruction and death caused by Hurricane Idalia is now being reported, which struck Florida's Big Bend coastline on Wednesday morning and moved into Georgia and the Carolinas later in the day. By kicking these workers down to the lower pay scale before the new contract takes effect, they will be able to more than cancel out the modest pay increases under the new deal. Tony Rufus, a Memphis Kroger Distribution Center worker, was found unresponsive Friday night and declared dead by Memphis police. The launch of the Voice referendum campaign, which will do nothing to address the plight of Aboriginal workers and youth, was characterised by banalities, advertising slogans and lies. In her talks in Beijing, Gina Raimondo set up conditions for "information exchange" but made it clear this was not to enable negotiations. Several recent studies have corroborated early estimates that excess deaths from lifting COVID led to the deaths of close to two million people in just a few weeks. The number of coronavirus cases in Germany has been rising continuously for about six weeks. For the last week, the RKI, Germany's infectious disease agency, reported 4,000 coronavirus infections, double the number of a month ago. The study not only found a strong association of an allele with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, it also elucidated the biological mechanism that explains the association. Rail workers must confront the reality that the trade unions do not act to defend their interests but as instruments of the corporations that will betray their members at the first opportunity. Whether their leaders are proclaimed as "lefts" like Lynch makes no difference. Following a ballot which narrowly accepted the sell-out contract negotiated by the EVG union, rail workers and their supporters voted to strengthen the work of the Rail Action Committee. After AFT-affiliated unions at the University of Michigan and the Detroit public school system pushed through sellout contracts last week, educators and students met to review the political lessons and discuss the fight for rank-and-file committees. Some 11,000 film and television writers have now been on strike in the US for four months, 65,000 actors for more than a month and a half. The sale of Yellow's terminals to Old Dominion would raise enough funds to cover nearly all of its debts. The scheme is a result of further discussion between management and the trade unions as part of the IMF austerity measures of the Wickremesinghe government. The impasse, centering on the signing of a security pact with Australia, highlights the escalating tensions across the Pacific caused by the US-led confrontation with China. Police are purposefully delaying the release of incriminating body camera footage depicting the heinous killing of Ta'Kiya Young last week. In comments to the to the rabidly right-wing Daily Telegraph, Reeves goes further than anyone running for office in living memory, Labour or Conservative, in promising savage spending cuts. 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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