 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service. Pakistan has warned that it will be considered "an act of war," if India make good on its threat to cut off its access to the water upon which its power grid and irrigation network rely. The following remarks were delivered to a January 19 meeting by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site. The legal setbacks have already prompted House passage of a law against "rogue judges," while Trump for the first time attacked the Supreme Court publicly. More than 1,500 student visas have been summarily revoked, including at least four at Wayne State University. Campus workers who have spoken out against genocide are having their jobs terminated at the University of Michigan. Labor's proposed change would not protect workers from the elimination or slashing of penalty rates through union-management agreements. "All these parties, Labor, Liberal, whatever, it's just a façade. At the end of the day they all want the same thing." Chinese government officials have said claims by the Trump administration that there are "active" discussions between Washington and Beijing are "fake news." With Trump's tariffs on auto parts set to begin May 3, the UAW has ignored or tried to downplay the mounting attacks on auto jobs. The strike received overwhelming support from the population, which is increasingly hostile to the political setup in a country deemed by the World Bank as the fourth most unequal in the world. Sánchez plans to impose this increase by decree, bypassing the normal budgetary process, underscoring how militarism and war are inseparable from a drive to dictatorship at home. Whose "national interests" and "division of labor" do Taiwan's social democrats and Stalinists embody? The phrase "precarious work" may be metaphorical in some cases, but in the unstable and perilous existence Souleymane leads the "precariousness" is real and ever-present. Over 80,000 hotel, catering and hospitality workers in the Canary Islands walk out to demand pay increase; cost-of-living protests continue across Iran by pensioners and workers in shadow of growing US war threats; Nigerian teachers and council workers continue stoppage over minimum wage in Federal Capital territory 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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