 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Judging by the response of the UAW bureaucracy and corporate media to Joe Biden's brief visit to a UAW picket line in Michigan Tuesday, the president and former Delaware senator has transformed himself overnight from a longtime representative of the corporations into the greatest champion of the working class since Karl Marx himself. M1 Abrams tanks from the United States have arrived in Ukraine, the Pentagon confirmed Monday, in the latest escalation of US involvement in the war. The revelation that the Unifor bureaucracy violated its own constitution by declaring its sellout contract with Ford Canada ratified despite the opposition of skilled trades workers underscores that autoworkers must urgently seize control of their contract struggle from the union apparatus. Unifor violated constitution to ratify Ford Canada contract over rejection by skilled trades workers Workers at Ford Oakville Assembly were informed at an in person meeting Monday by Unifor Skilled Trades National Director John Breslin that even though skilled trades had rejected the contract, it was still going to be ratified. Striking Ford workers at the Michigan Assembly Plant showed no enthusiasm over Biden's photo-op at a nearby warehouse. The struggle of academic workers at the CSU System is significantly taking place as autoworkers, also represented by the UAW, have begun their battle against the Big Three. In the decades following World War II, Canada became a safe haven for Ukrainian fascists who had been accomplices of the Nazis in the mass extermination of European Jewry and Hitler's "war of annihilation" against the Soviet Union. Almost six months after the expiry of collective agreements covering 650,000 Quebec hospital workers, nurses, public school teachers and other public sector workers, the leaders of the Common Front inter-union alliance have announced that they will poll their members on a possible strike. The next mission for the spacecraft will be orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Apophis starting in April 2029. The University of Pennsylvania informed acclaimed rock music artist and activist Roger Waters that he would not be permitted to participate in-person on a panel scheduled Friday evening at the Palestine Writes festival hosted by the university. Amid massive protests in Niger against French imperialism, French President Macron announced the withdrawal of the French ambassador to Niamey on Sunday. Criticism of Braverman for prejudicing a future trial barely scratches the surface of what is represented by her intervention. The aim of her proposed review is to provide armed police with de facto immunity from future prosecutions—effectively a license to kill. The revelations, which included the possibility of secret graves on site, are just one of the many hidden crimes of the dark and violent history of Australian capitalism against Aboriginal people. "There should be a further investigation into the deaths at Kinchela. Things have been swept under the rug." Mega-chicken processors Tyson Foods and Perdue are suspected of hiring migrant children to clean slaughterhouses in Virginia. Whatever the result of the upcoming election, Amazon workers will need new organizations to mobilize their strength independent of the trade union apparatus. Minns's visit to Lismore sought to promote a small house repair scheme relying heavily on volunteer labour, after scrapping a joint housing assistance promise by the state and federal Labor governments The announcement by a subsidiary of the giant property developer Evergrande that it has defaulted on a bond has thrown into doubt a long-developed plan for the restructuring of its debts. Hundreds of reps and workers have been abandoned and "The call by our committee for a fightback has resonated at mail centres, delivery and sorting offices up and down the country." 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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