 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Epoch of Imperialist War and Socialist Revolution The following report was delivered by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to the opening session of the SEP summer school last week. The Socialist Equality Party Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, was animated by the understanding that the assimilation of the history of the Trotskyist movement is the basis for a theoretically guided practice. Here we are publishing messages sent by leaders of sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), for the memorial meeting paying tribute to Wije. Yellow's bankruptcy puts 30,000 workers out of their jobs and sets the stage for a looting of the company by Wall Street. At the Democratic Socialists of America's August 4-6 convention in Chicago, delegates gathered in person to re-state the organization's half-century commitment to promoting the imperialist Democratic Party. ECOWAS commissioner for political affairs, peace and security Abdel-Fatau Musah warned Friday, "All the elements that will go into any eventual intervention have been worked out." The ever-more draconian prison sentences handed down to prominent representatives of the NATO-backed opposition in the Russian state and oligarchy are indicative of intense conflicts and crises behind the walls of the Kremlin. New questions are arising as to whether UPS will be able to reduce pay for part-timers affected by Market Rate Adjustments. The auto corporations, industry publication Automotive News reported, "have no appetite for adding long-term structural costs such as pensions, cost-of-living adjustments, layoff protection or expanded retiree benefits." Indications of new waves of COVID-19 infections are emerging in Britain this summer, fueled by new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the disease A wider political crisis is developing. There is growing distrust in the Voice project and the Labor government itself, especially in the working class. A hospital worker recently contacted the Health Workers Rank & File Committee to discuss cuts to staffing levels. France-based auto parts supplier Forvia, formerly Faurecia, is closing its Highland Park, Michigan, seating plant at the cost of 511 jobs in an "amicable" agreement with the UAW. Teachers in Chile are demanding unpaid bonuses and other demands presented to the Ministry of Education, while Dominican Republic health workers demand a resolution of the country's insurance crisis. Over 150 paper mill workers are continuing their strike over their company's two-tier wage system, agreed upon by the Teamsters in 2016. Two themes or moods seem to predominate: first, a general melancholy; second, the sense that the writer-director is overwhelmed by events. 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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