 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This week's tumultuous events in France have torn the "democratic" mask off the capitalist state, exposing it as a dictatorship of the financial oligarchy. The air strikes along with the continuing occupation of Syria are among the myriad of war crimes committed by US imperialism across the Middle East. The day before Netanyahu's leaving for London, at least 75 protesters were arrested during the latest anti-government "day of disruption" in Israel. The pseudo-left's hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy. On Thursday, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee put on a five-hour spectacle of xenophobia, anticommunism and anti-Chinese invective, focussed on demands to ban TikTok, the sixth most popular social network in the world. The New York Police Department confirmed that a package sent to DA Alvin Bragg's office contained "suspicious white powder." The University of Waterloo has backed off from its threat to arbitrarily cancel an International Youth and Students for Social Equality anti-war meeting to be held next Tuesday, March 28, at its campus in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Over the course of three days this week, Yellen flip flopped on the question of guarantees for ultra wealthy bank depositors before predictably falling into line with the demands of Wall Street. The IMF loan package is intended to bolster a government dedicated to continuing an imperialist proxy war that continues to ruin countless lives. The rapprochement between Germany and Japan comes at a time when both countries are abandoning all military restraint and massively rearming. The government of President Luis Arce made clear its rejection of any concessions by unleashing riot police against a march of teachers in La Paz on Wednesday. The World Socialist Web Site is publishing further correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitative regime being imposed by Royal Mail. The latest comes from London, Cheshunt, Luton, Chatham, Houghton Regis, Stalham and Blackburn. This new wave of strikes takes place against the backdrop of relentless anti-Russian hysteria and intensified propaganda in the media to justify NATO's war in Ukraine. On the first day of the Los Angeles schools strike, the World Socialist Web Site spoke with Max, a fifth grade teacher who has been teaching for 24 years in LAUSD. Kerson's mural, comprising two 8'×24' panels titled Vermont, the Underground Railroad and Vermont and the Fugitive Slave, is significant from a historical, political and artistic perspective. Both Democratic and Republican senators on the Commerce Committee made clear in Wednesday's hearing that they had no intentions of developing meaningful safety regulations if they cut across the industry's profit margins. The government's ruthless austerity drive, dictated by the IMF, is to pay the international credit sharks and boost corporate profits. Despite the enormous show of opposition among school workers and educators, both the SEIU and UTLA union bureaucracies worked to contain and limit the strike. Mayor Eric Adams and the public workers union are pushing a deal for 100,000 city workers containing massive cuts to real wages. India: Uttar Pradesh power unions betray 100,000-strong strike for higher pay; Bangladeshi teachers demand nationalisation of schools; Western Australia: Maintenance workers strike South32 alumina refinery. Union leaders have begun an operation framed as a "dialogue" designed to pressure members into accepting a rotten deal. 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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