 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The vote Wednesday was the first time in US history that the minority party supported the candidate of the majority to oversee the House of Representatives. Media reports provided extensive coverage to comments by US President Joe Biden late Wednesday that the US would not provide large bombs or artillery shells for offensive operations in Rafah. However what is at stake are merely tactical differences over how best to proceed with the onslaught. This is the text of the speech delivered by Cheryl Crisp, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally. This is the text of the speech delivered by Andy Thompson, an IYSSE member in the US, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally. In a roundtable discussion this week, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp defended Israel's massacre of Palestinian civilians by advocating military brutality as a general principle. The only way to stop the war and defend our rights is by taking matters into our own hands as the working class, who create all of society's wealth. The same politicians claiming peaceful protests against genocide are intolerable disruptions to "order" never batted an eyelash when hospital morgues were stuffed full of bodies during endless and continuing surges of the pandemic. Jake, a history student at California State University, Los Angeles, recently spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the Gaza solidarity encampment established on campus last week. Weekly unemployment in the US jumped by more than 10 percent, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the share labor receives of national income has fallen to an unprecedented 55.8 percent as of the first quarter of 2024. Workers at Warren Stamping told WSWS reporters that the recent strike vote over health and safety at the plant reflected anger over a range of issues including job cuts. Workers face high inflation, falling wages, and mass layoffs while the Democrats collaborate with the unions to suppress the class struggle. Wickremesinghe's so-called pay hike, which is backed by the unions, will do little to overcome the massive increases in the cost of living for plantation workers and their families, let alone lift them out of the desperate social abyss they confront. Labor government figures and media commentators are increasingly explicit that their denunciations of the small student encampments are only part of a broader campaign to ban all protests against the genocide. Speakers at the Sydney rally once again promoted the fraud that the federal Labor government that has backed Israel's barbaric war for seven months can be pressured to change course. 33 people arrested as George Washington University pro-Palestinian encampment is broken up by police The crushing of the GWU encampment is part of a nationwide counter-offensive against student protests as the Israeli government prepares to enter and annihilate the remnants of survivors in the city of Rafah. The IG Metall union has been agreeing to job cuts and wage reductions for years, claiming this improves "competitivity" and so made jobs safer. Now, 3,700 workers face the loss of their livelihoods. Teachers in multiple strikes across Europe, in parts of Belgium, Spain, Portugal, a town in Croatia and one-day national strike in Turkey over funding and conditions; Italy's journalists walk out over attempts to turn state broadcaster into government mouthpiece, cost-of-living protests continue across Iran by workers including truck drivers, construction workers and retirees; Kenyan health workers' strike in third month over health service starved of funds Around 30,000 people in the UK were infected with hepatitis C and/or HIV after receiving contaminated blood or blood products, including 380 children. At least 3,000 died and the rest were left severely ill. 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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