 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Trump's Health Secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on public health and the consolidation of a fascist government in the United States. Trump's bold-faced attempt to seize control of Ukraine's mineral wealth is an open admission of the geostrategic and economic interests of US imperialism behind a war that has already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. This report, submitted to the WSWS by Ukrainian underground journalists, documents the growing disintegration of the army amid preparations for US-Russian talks about a settlement of the conflict. The announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States would "immediately" begin negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine has plunged European politics into a deep crisis. Over the last 48 hours, hundreds of probationary government workers at agencies and departments charged with providing safety, oversight, education and consumer protection have been fired. If confirmed, the raid is an exposure of the Teamsters union, which covers workers at the facility and which openly backs Trump's anti-immigrant racism. Labour intends to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights to which it is a signatory, guaranteeing the right to a family life. Grammy winning rapper Macklemore released a music video this week that expresses widespread revulsion at deepening capitalist barbarism, especially since Donald Trump's return to the White House. Action committees of teachers, students and parents, migrant workers, railway workers and free trade zone workers have sent protest letters to the vice chancellor, denouncing the anti-democratic lecture ban. The move, which goes beyond the imposition of a flat tariff on all nations, threatens to shatter what remains of the global trading system that has been in operation since 1947. Albanese touted the possibility of an exemption on Tuesday, before being repeatedly slapped down over the following hours. A fighting unity must be established with all 22,000 ONA members and broader sections of workers in the region. King Soopers is seeking a temporary restraining order against workers and has filed a lawsuit alleging the union of colluding with other union locals to engage in unlawful "multi-union bargaining" This follows the discontinuation of the day sort shift in mid-April of last year when over 300 UPS part-timers were laid off by the company, citing a decline in package volume as the main excuse. New forms of organisation must be built to fight the job destruction, course closures, pro-corporate restructuring and suppression of dissent, because the campus trade unions have for years opposed any unified fight by university staff and students. The Labor government's demolition plans are directly aimed at boosting property investor profits by semi-privatising the construction of new apartment blocks on lucrative, inner-city sites where public housing towers have stood for decades. The lawsuit, endorsed by UTLA and two other unions, claims LAUSD violated the law by replacing existing arts funding with new Proposition 28 dollars, rather than using the money to expand arts programs. Postal workers in Belgium strike over restructuring with fewer workers doing more work; protests break out in Aden, Yemen against humanitarian crisis due to imperialist-stoked civil war; around 100 workers protest the deaths of Stilfontein illegal miners after ANC government ordered cutoff of supplies 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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