 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. A week after House Democrats voted to retain Mike Johnson as Speaker, the Louisiana Republican appeared outside the Trump trial in Manhattan to fervently support the fascist ex-president. As the official death toll since October 7 rises to over 35,200 Palestinians—with well over 40,000 dead when those unaccounted for under the rubble are taken into account, the vast majority being women and children—Washington's response is to double down on its support for the far-right Zionist regime and to accelerate the shipment of arms. The momentum of the strike must not be lost, especially now that the 48,000 academic workers in the UC system have voted to strike in response to police attacks against peaceful anti-genocide protests. Faculty at Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans issue public letters denouncing the violent police assault and disciplinary measures against a peaceful student encampment protest earlier this month. This is the text of the speech delivered by Dilaxshan Mahalingam, an IYSSE member in Sri Lanka, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally. This is the text of the speech delivered by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally. The Colombo Port Workers Action Committee urges all port workers and youth who value democratic rights to come forward and campaign for the release of comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk. WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the assembled media, "It is abundantly clear that the process in the courts in the United Kingdom are corrupt. The case is rigged against Julian." Tactical differences have emerged in the Green Party, with former co-leader James Shaw declaring that he would have been comfortable joining a right-wing National Party-led government. Were the shoe on the other foot, the case would have been frontpage news for weeks. Instead, it has been covered up almost entirely. The UAW unionization drive has received the blessings of the Biden administration, which is seeking to use the unions to control and stifle social opposition to war and austerity. With new job cuts being announced every day, analysts are suggesting 384,000 education jobs may be axed this year as federal pandemic aid runs out. The strike ban underscores that as Canadian imperialism backs Israel's genocide against the Palestinians, and takes on an ever greater role in NATO's war on Russia and the US strategic offensive against China the Trudeau government will tolerate no opposition from workers at home. The HECS-HELP loan indexation adjustment is a tiny fraction of the crippling debt confronting university students amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Educators and professional staff at WSU College face the elimination of more than 13 percent of teaching and learning jobs, and a "spill and fill" regime to force them to compete against each other for the remaining posts. Bainimarama's imprisonment over an abuse of office is bound up with the divisions within the country's ruling elites which confront a worsening economic and social crisis. Directed by American Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish, 2013) and scripted by Nick Shafir, I.S.S. defies tropes so plentiful in Cold War (and contemporary) fiction and film. The University of Amsterdam administration justified the intervention of the Mobile Unit (ME) or the Dutch riot police in the university building, brutally beating and arresting students. The strike is the first in the sector for 17 years and the first nationwide strike for 22 years. Child homelessness rose last year by 14 percent to 145,800, while 55 child deaths since 2019 were directly attributed to living in temporary accommodation 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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