 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's appearance at the United Nations in New York underlined how aggressively German imperialism is behaving again, despite its historical crimes. In a Facebook live video Friday morning, UAW President Shawn Fain announced that autoworkers at Big Three assembly plants must continue working, producing relief on Wall Street and frustration among rank-and-file workers, 97 percent of whom voted for an all-out strike. A decisive "No" vote must be the starting point for workers on the shop floor to seize control of their contract struggle through the construction of rank-and-file committees in every plant and the preparation of an industry-wide strike across North America to win workers' demands. "Let's be clear on what Fain's announcement really means: These strikes will have no impact on production. These are parts warehouses that ship components to the dealerships, not suppliers of the Big Three." The behind-closed-doors talks represent a grave danger to the striking writers, who have made immense sacrifices over the course of more than 140 days. McCarthy has put forward a continuing resolution that would fund the government at a sharply reduced rate through October to keep the government running while he works to hash out a budget deal with the Biden White House and the Democratic-controlled Senate. It does not include funding for the Ukraine war. Locking hands with Republican anti-immigrant fascists, the Biden administration announced on Wednesday the deployment of an additional 800 US Army soldiers to the border. An anesthesiologist at Emory University Hospital described the execution method as "death by asphyxiation. This is choking someone to death with a gas. Why anyone would think that would be something pleasant or painless is really beyond my understanding." The episode at Boston University reveals—once again—the pecuniary, intellectually bankrupt, and essentially fraudulent character of racialist ideology. The delegation led by AOC was aimed at lulling workers in the US and across Latin America while lending US imperialism a "democratic" face. In just two months, China's foreign minister has been removed and the defence minister has been absent from public view for weeks. These unexplained events point to growing political tensions and infighting within the Beijing regime. Socialist Alternative does not even pretend that the Voice will solve anything for ordinary indigenous people. But despite this, the pseudo-left is aggressively pushing Labor's policy. Regardless of the prospect of a repeat of the catastrophic 2019‒20 bushfire season, virtually nothing has been done to mitigate the risks. Polish officials' statements reflect explosive international and class tensions unleashed by the escalating NATO war on Russia in Ukraine. An NHS consultant said, "Ideally, I'd like to be seeing more actions taken across professions. I'm very much interested in general actions. Whether it's with the railway workers, the postal workers, these are problems that are being felt because of the cost-of-living crisis across the board. I don't see these problems as being relegated to single domains, as if our interests were somehow independent of other professions." While the inquiry compiled masses of evidence and produced an 800-page report—providing just a snapshot of the inhumane practices rife throughout a system for the imprisonment and deportation of the vulnerable—it does nothing to challenge this set-up. The union leadership is promoting the conception that "nothing can be done" in order to allow the plant to run without disruption and ensure the smoothest possible transition of workers onto the scrapheap. Government cuts and hyperinflation have led to a drastic rundown of education facilities and the increasing inability of parents to pay for the education of their children. Socialist Equality Party campaign teams are finding widespread distrust or opposition to the Albanese Labor government's referendum, seeing it as a diversion from, and a cover for, for the underlying ruling class program of war and austerity. Workers recently voted by 99 percent to authorize a strike, decisively rejecting the hospital's latest contract offer. China: Electronics factory workers in Guangdong province strike; Bangladeshi land port workers walk out over pay; Australia: Power generating workers in Queensland take industrial action; 1,000 Inghams poultry processing workers strike. 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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