 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On March 1, the emergency allocation of food stamp benefits provided during the COVID-19 pandemic will expire in every state, reducing food stamp recipients to an average benefit of $6.10 a day, about $2 a meal. The massive police assault on the Sunday protest makes clear that the Wickremesinghe government will not tolerate any opposition to its reactionary political, economic and social policies. The SEP/IYSSE meeting will discuss President Ranil Wickremesinghe's cancellation of the March 9 local government elections and his government's escalating attacks on democratic and social rights. The meeting to celebrate the anniversary of the youth organization in Russia and the former Soviet Union was marked by a high level of consciousness of the historical and political tasks confronting workers and young people in the fight to build sections of the ICFI. In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about "weapons of mass destruction" are being used to promote the United States' unprecedented military buildup around China. In a disgraceful act of political and artistic censorship, the Frankfurt City Council decided on Friday to stop Roger Waters' concert scheduled for May 28. "I have a 14 year old, she goes to school here. She has no future. You don't know what the long-term effects are," one resident told the WSWS. The "Revolt for Peace" rally was not a call to fight war, but an appeal to the government to protect German interests more consistently. The war games come as millions protest Macron's pension reform, and broader attacks on wages and social spending, designed to fund the state's rearmament campaign. As aftershocks continue and millions struggle to survive without basic necessities in Turkey, corporations insist that production and profit flows cannot stop. The university management is setting a precedent for far-reaching attacks on freedom of speech and other core democratic rights, amid growing opposition to war. Over 64,000 bank workers in Argentina took part in a one-day strike last week to demand pay raises that keep pace with soaring inflation. The analysts are not in any sense anti-war, but rather represent a dissident faction of the ruling class deeply concerned about the implications for Australian imperialism of a US-led war against its largest trading partner, China. None of the basic failures exposed by last year's floods crisis has been resolved, and the contemptuous and inadequate response of governments continues, underscoring the need for a social program. With only hours remaining until the March 1 contract expiration between Caterpillar and the UAW, workers are being kept in the dark over what is really being discussed between management and UAW officials. Novak, best known for his role as the scheming temp Ryan on the television series The Office, wrote and makes his directorial debut with Vengeance. "Enough is enough" is a fraud that aims to ensnare workers in a toothless protest campaign confined to Ontario's provincial borders, and led by the very same unions that are propping up the Trudeau Liberal government at the federal level as it spends billions on war and takes the axe to public spending. The "Windsor framework" deal was secured Monday, after hundreds of hours of negotiations, and announced in a joint press conference by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. What the health union bureaucracy wants is a co-ordinated sell-out not a fightback. Amazon workers mount further strikes at Coventry warehouse, posing need for rank-and-file committees Amazon opposes any form of workers' organisation or representation and refuses to recognise or negotiate pay with the GMB. This has lent the union an oppositional standing it does not deserve. In this letter to the court-appointed Monitor, Lehman calls for a "full and transparent investigation into the circumstances behind this appointment... conducted publicly in the view of the rank and file." 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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