 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Everything depends on the mobilization and initiative of rank-and-file workers, independently of the UAW bureaucracy. China's economic slowdown is not just the result of low global growth and faltering global trade but of the US economic warfare aimed at undermining the Chinese economy and in particular crippling its hi-tech industries. A report by the rating agency Moody's on the status of 27 banks, including some of the largest, has pointed to the growing problems in the US banking and financial system. The Hawaiian island was overrun by a series of out-of-control and fast moving wildfires on Tuesday and Wednesday fueled by a confluence of conditions, including a drought on the island, high winds from Hurricane Dora and a ridge of high pressure. Striking hotel workers picketing in front of Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica were assaulted by hotel security without warning Sunday. A conductor trainee for CSX died while riding equipment in a rail yard in Maryland. Issue 1 would have made it much more difficult to pass a referendum measure, set for a November vote, to incorporate abortion rights into the state constitution. The grad student instructors have waged a courageous struggle and can defeat the strikebreaking of the university and its corporate and government backers. This requires the development of a rank-and-file committee independent of the AFT apparatus and its agents in the GEO leadership. Above all, workers must establish their political and organizational independence from the trade union bureaucracy and New Democrats, and develop a mass worker-led counter-offensive across North America to oppose capitalist austerity, war, and attacks on workers' democratic and social rights. Workers and youth who attended the memorial meeting to honour Wije Dias spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the key political role he played in the SEP and the International Committee of the Fourth International. The growing strike vote reflects mounting opposition among broad sections of the working class to deepening real wage cuts. But Labor, the unions and the industrial courts are employing increasingly anti-democratic measures to shut down workers' struggles. The Labour Party has already declared that in government they would keep the barges as detention centres and other anti-immigration infrastructure of the Tories. Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed criticised the Conservative government from the right, pledging, "Labour is the party of law and order. In Government it will get on and deliver the prison places we need to ensure that dangerous criminals are where they belong—behind bars." The method in which a new government is formed is a highly anti-democratic process and reflects the overall domination of the military in the country's politics. The German government is preparing to provide Taurus medium-range missiles to Kiev, which are capable of reaching Russian territory. The incident occurred the day after ex-president Donald Trump spoke in Montgomery, where he made numerous racist and xenophobic statements. The strike, now in its second week, pits workers directly against the corporate-controlled Democratic Party. COVID measures being abandoned in Italy in line with every other nation that has forced its population to live with COVID and its consequences forever. 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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