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Saturday, February 14, 2026
Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman announces 2026 campaign for UAW president on a platform for rank-and-file power
Trump administration rescinds EPA Endangerment Finding: Corporate America’s license to kill
 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding marks a declaration by the capitalist class that there will be no restrictions on its ability to pollute the environment, regardless of the consequences in human lives. Reuters reports that the Pentagon is planning for a far larger attack than last June's one-off strikes, with officials saying the US "fully expected Iran to retaliate." San Francisco educators, on strike since February 9, should reject with contempt the betrayal of their four-day strike and expand the struggle to Los Angeles and beyond. The fight against manufactured austerity is the defense of public education everywhere. The rally showed the powerful support for the strike, which the union bureaucrats and Democratic Party are now attempting to shut down. Refinery workers must organize themselves from below to fight for a deal that meets their demands, taking all actions necessary, up to and including a national strike. UPS is preparing to launch a new buyout program as it eyes a reduction in its workforce of further 30,000 employees, potentially bringing total layoffs since 2024 to 90,000 by the end of the year. Determined to win safe staffing and secure workplaces, the nurses must now wrest control of the strike from the union bureaucrats, expand the struggle to other hospitals and adopt a new strategy based on rank-and-file power and political independence. Raman's candidacy serves to construct a "left" safety valve within the Democratic Party, absorbing opposition while preventing it from developing into an independent movement of the working class. In its early phase many members genuinely looked to revolutionary change—an orientation that was later crushed by the rise of Stalinism and the Popular Front policies it imposed on the communist parties and their periphery. There must be a counteroffensive against the government's attack on democratic rights and support for oppression around the world, fusing the spirit of urgency and self-sacrifice which has animated PA protesters with a perspective for the broad mobilisation of millions. Berlin has provided political cover and actively supported with arms deliveries the genocide that has turned the Gaza Strip into a wasteland and cost the lives of well over 70,000 people. Now Klöckner has openly declared her solidarity with the fascist Netanyahu regime and travelled to the scene of the crime. "My jailing on bogus spying charges in Cambodia in 2017 was to intimidate and silence other journalists. The police violence in Sydney on Monday was intended to terrify people about going to future demonstrations." Socialist Alternative's provocations, based on invocations of the discredited MeToo movement, expose it as a fake-left organisation of the upper middle-class, hostile to a socialist perspective. Thursday's action was a further indication of the mass social anger against Modi's far-right, Hindu supremacist government and the state of Indian society more generally. JBS workers, who are largely immigrants and facing threats of deportation and ICE raids, are joining a growing wave of resistance in the working class. The development of artificial intelligence (or more correctly augmented intelligence) AI and the growing concern that it has the potential to set off a major economic and financial crises shows that contradictions identified by Marx are coming to the surface once again. Angus Taylor's installation to head the Liberals highlights the deepening breakup of the parliamentary establishment as a whole. India: Punjab bus contract workers strike statewide; Sri Lankan government doctors continue protests; Australia: Queensland Urban Utilities workers strike for higher pay; Victorian public health support workers' continue industrial action; New Zealand firefighters escalate strike; Air New Zealand cabin crew walkout. 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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