 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The assault on Rafah is being funded, armed, and politically directed by US imperialism. In addition to double-digit arrests at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, police at the University of Calgary in Canada and the University of Arizona conducted tear gas-filled sweeps of anti-genocide encampments Thursday night. This is the text of the speech delivered by Alex Lantier, the national secretary of the Parti de l'Egalité Socialiste (PES) in France, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally. This is the text of the speech delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally. Across the United States, workers are speaking out against the Gaza genocide and the police attack on students being conducted by both pro-war parties. Voting by lecturers at the University of Michigan finishes today on a sellout tentative contract agreement entered into by the Lecturers' Employee Organization. Since the release of the SGP's TV election spot warning of a nuclear third world war, there have been increasing signs that NATO's war against Russia is entering a new stage that could actually lead to the use of nuclear weapons. According to the author, war planning must be "embedded" within the economic agencies of the US. It is only a matter of time before more people are killed on Boeing planes, repeating or exceeding the tragedies of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was in his off-base apartment when he was fatally shot by a deputy, who was responding to a disturbance call in a difference apartment. Elphicke is seeking to salvage her political career by jumping ship to a Labour Party expected to easily win a general election later this year, and she can do so by joining a party whose programme is identical to that of the Tories. The Labor government's determination to proceed with its immigration bill as fast as possible shows that its imprisonment and deportation plans go far beyond the up to 200 detainees directly affected by the verdict. The socially intriguing and historically authentic film was an opportunity for the director to reveal his attitude towards American capitalism during the Great Depression. Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy in Dallas this week threatening the closure of more than 30 hospitals. This will have a devastating impact on more than 30,000 healthcare workers and more than two million patients. "The opposition of students and workers in America and Europe to the war against Palestinians in Gaza is encouraging. We must oppose the world from being dragged into a third nuclear world war for the interests of a handful of imperialists." – University of Kelaniya student. Nurses and Midwives Association officials ended the May 3 meeting before members could vote on a motion to double their wage claim and take up a campaign of industrial action. Japanese students have expressed solidarity with protesters on campuses in the US who have faced a wave of vicious police crackdowns. South Korea: Costco workers demand better pay and conditions; India: Air India Express workers strike over new employment terms; Australia: Wilmar Sugar mill workers walkout for higher wages in Queensland; Submarine maintenance workers in South Australia down tools; Fiji Water bottling plant workers strike. The announcement of a $748 million loss last year comes as the Crown corporation is in the midst of negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers bureaucracy over contracts for 42,000 Urban Postal Operations workers and 8,000 rural and suburban mail carriers. The Democratic Party-controlled Ann Arbor school board plans to cut $25 million from next year's budget. 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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