 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The reality that the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and remains very dangerous has broken through the propaganda of governments, public health agencies and the corporate media, who have falsely proclaimed the pandemic over. Should Kaiser workers strike, they would join tens of thousands of striking writers and actors around the country. But a key obstacle they face is the corrupt bureaucracy of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions. In June 1964, amid a massive crisis pregnant with revolutionary possibilities, the Pabloite LSSP entered into Madame Bandaranaike's Sri Lanka Freedom Party government. This was the first time that a party claiming to be Trotskyist and historically associated with the Fourth International had entered into a bourgeois government. For many who voted for Pheu Thai and Move Forward hoping they represented a progressive alternative, the election outcome is a bitter disappointment. It is necessary to understand why this has occurred and, above all, what is the political road forward. Fraser, who was president of the United Auto Workers union from 1977 to 1983, oversaw the destruction of 57,000 Chrysler jobs and cuts in annual wages of the equivalent of nearly $40,000 per worker in today's terms. Victimised workers have told WSWS they regard the Falconer Review as a "smokescreen" to get their cases off the table while the company and CWU implement their rotten agreement against the entire workforce. An actor issues an appeal to for the building of rank-and-file committees by striking US actors and writers. The struggle at Deutsche Bahn has not ended with the narrow vote to accept the new contract but is just beginning. School systems recently returning from summer break are already experiencing large numbers of COVID-19 cases in the midst of another wave of the disease. Camas teachers struck Monday and Evergreen teachers are set to follow as budget deficits in the tens of millions threaten education layoffs across Washington state. Netanyahu hopes to derail the protest movement opposed to his far-right government's efforts to grant itself dictatorial powers, and to unite Israelis amid the threat of a wider war. New York City school bus drivers voted by over 90 percent to authorize strike action but face a union bureaucracy intent on suppressing a unified struggle. A series of school shootings have occurred across the US as students returned to classes at colleges, universities and K-12 schools for the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year. Horrendous mis-treatment of immigrant workers has become an entrenched feature of New Zealand capitalism and establishes the conditions for similar attacks on the rights of the entire working class. Striking Metro workers had blocked trucks from moving product in and out of the two warehouses for the past six days. The temporary injunction is in effect until September 1. Under the false banner of addressing a "youth crime wave," the Labor Party is introducing laws that punish alleged criminal offenders aged as young as 10, even though its own official statistics show a decline in youth crime over the past decade. Johnson's supposed opposition to the Democratic Party "status quo" has been quickly exposed as a fraud. 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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