 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The unanimous ruling in favor of Trump, clearing the way for him to appear on the ballot in the 2024 US presidential election despite the fact that he led a violent coup attempt after he lost the 2020 election, is another milestone in the decay of American democracy and in the normalization of the far right. Macron doubled down on his unpopular call for military escalation against Russia, risking nuclear war and gambling that the Kremlin may be intimidated and back down. Among the latest reports, Gaza's Health Ministry said 15 children had died of malnutrition in a single hospital in northern Gaza in recent days. A study on 93 million individuals worldwide who received one of the major COVID-19 vaccines confirmed existing knowledge about the safety profile of these vaccines. Gershwin wrote that his painting and music "spring from the same elements, one emerging as sight, the other as sound." Train drivers have to face the fact that there is no way forward with the GDL. It is necessary to build independent rank-and-file action committees that are democratically organised and that focus on the principled defence of workers' interests. In a February 18 interview with the Sunday Times, Staunton claimed he had been told to delay compensation pay-outs to Post Office sub-postmasters by the most senior official at the Business Department, former permanent secretary Sarah Munby. Amid a developing global slump there is a growing financial bubble that increasingly resembles that which preceded the crisis of 2008. A fire in a warehouse Monday evening in Clinton Township, Michigan caused canisters containing butane and nitrous oxide to explode and fly through the air at high speed and for long distances. One of these projectiles killed a 19-year-old bystander. The strike's fortieth anniversary takes place amid a resurgence of the class struggle not just in Britain but internationally. The firing of 1,000 more supplemental workers this weekend by Stellantis has sparked an upsurge of rank-and-file anger. SEIU has limited strikes by janitors in advance to just three days, while calling a strike by nursing home workers for only 24 hours, as it seeks to corral opposition among its members. "Going back a few years, seven out of eight people I saw would have been on government benefits. Now, I'd say easily half are working. It doesn't take much to go from having a job and paying rent, to becoming homeless." The Yoon administration is using populist demagogy to cover up what is ultimately a pro-business agenda dressed up as medical "reform." The Steward affair is one of the most insidious instances of putting profit maximization before human need. The health care provider is the third-largest hospital owner in Massachusetts and has dozens of hospitals across nine states plus facilities in Colombia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. 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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