 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Biden gives go-ahead for NATO attacks on Russia: A new stage in the escalating imperialist world war The American and European imperialist powers are recklessly escalating the war with nuclear-armed Russia towards a global conflagration, which can be halted only through the political mobilisation of the international working class in opposition to imperialist war. In a major intensification of the US political crisis, for the first time in American history an ex-president was tried and convicted on felony charges. Students, autoworkers denounce police assault on Gaza encampment at Detroit's Wayne State University The WSWS urges autoworkers throughout Detroit and the wider region to come to the defense of students, both at Wayne State and around the country. The crackdown will not stop at the students, but also be used to attack autoworkers opposing mass layoffs in the auto industry. "If students and workers are united, they are perhaps one of the most powerful forces a society can bring together"—Charlie, student from Nijmegen. The French president presents himself as a champion opposing the extreme right and representative of a progressive Europe. However, he calls for the war in Ukraine against Russia to be escalated and for increased military spending. "In acting to oppose Assange's persecution, you are stepping into the titanic storm now blowing through world politics; you are coming up against fundamental class interests and imperialist objectives." Sri Lankan workers, students and youth, along with supporters from India, passed a resolution condemning the Ukrainian government's frame-up of Bogdan Syrotiuk. The meeting was a part of the ICFI's campaign for an international anti-war movement of workers and youth based on socialist policies. A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine confirms that there remain significant health detriments long after the acute phase of a COVID infection, provides new insight into the pathogenesis of human diseases and underscores the necessity of prevention of disease as the main pillar of public health. The fires are a direct result of capitalist-induced climate change, with governments of all political stripes at the federal and provincial levels creating conditions for worsening infernos and withholding the resources necessary to address the crisis. Despite harrowing testimony from workers and doctors, the parochial conference was dominated by middle-class and bourgeois nationalist forces, and welcomed Democratic Party operatives, all hostile to socialism and the political independence of the working class. This is gesture politics at its most cynical, with Sanchez, Harris and Støre trying to deceive workers and young people horrified by Israel's genocidal violence and their own governments' complicity into thinking they are sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians and "listening" to the masses. Entire towns across the state were flooded for over 20 days, with more than 2 million people affected. "Nursing is a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding job and there's no way people are going to just accept three percent." – Greg, a Melbourne nurse. The remarks were made at an online public meeting hosted by the WSWS, where workers around the US spoke out in support of the protests and called for action by the working class to end the war. The abrupt termination of the Palestinian-American nurse is the latest attack not only on the right to free speech, but also on mass opposition to the genocide among healthcare workers and the working class more broadly. The Ascension Genesys nurses' tentative agreement does not improve staffing ratios, eliminate mandatory overtime or make up for wages lost since the last contract. To its credit, Art College 1994 displays throughout a cosmopolitanism and sophistication, the opposite of nationalism and provincialism. People fleeing war, violence and poverty and hoping for a better future and a life of human dignity in Europe are being abandoned in the desert with the knowledge and funding of the European Union. French pharmacists in national one-day strike against shortage of medicines and government reforms threatening existence of pharmacies; South Pars gas field contract workers in Iran continue strike over pay and conditions as retirees protest across the country against poverty and jailing of strikers; Kenyan medical workers' stoppage to demand permanent contracts sabotaged as one union calls off action; steel workers at SA Steel Mills South Africa on strike against sackings after walkout and safety conditions face rubber bullets 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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