 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Ben and Max Morrissey were burned to death in an explosion and fire at the BP Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, just outside of Toledo. For American capitalism, the life of a worker is very cheap. As 3.5 million people marched against Macron's overwhelmingly unpopular cuts, a revolutionary confrontation is emerging between the working class and the capitalist state. The pseudo-left's hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy. Last weekend, Republican members of Congress carried out a war game, led by a retired US general, envisioning a war with China by 2025. The IYSSE calls on all students and workers across Canada and internationally to support our democratic right to hold this important meeting—"The War in Ukraine and How to Stop It." The SEP held an important online meeting Thursday night, ahead of Saturday's New South Wales state election. SEP candidates Oscar Grenfell, Max Boddy and Mike Head addressed the meeting, which was chaired by National Secretary Cheryl Crisp. Dr. Florence Débarre and colleagues have released their full report analyzing genetic sequences from Huanan wet market that showed wild-animal DNA mixed with SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Eliminating the task force is part of the overall Biden administration policy of claiming the pandemic is "over," even though COVID-19 continues to kill thousands of Americans every week. Workers denounced the dishonest character of the Monitor's rejection of Lehman's protest. The World Socialist Web Site has received numerous statements from educators involved in independent rank-and-file committees across the world supporting the three-day strike by Los Angeles school workers this week. Hundreds of teachers and principals protest in Colombo this week against the government's arbitrary decision to dissolve the Teachers Transfer Board. The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing correspondence from postal workers exposing the systemic run down of the service by Royal Mail and the unbearable workloads imposed based on an agreement between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU). Since a new payroll system was implemented in 2020, workers have complained of continuous underpayment of wages. The social situation in Bankstown, with soaring rents and mortgages, stagnant or declining incomes and mounting social distress, shows that capitalism offers no future for the working class. Austin Lyle,17, shot and injured two Denver East High School faculty after a handgun was found on him before he fled the school Wednesday. Why should the US ruling elite blink at the permanent damage done to artists and cultural life? Hundreds of thousands of workers in Germany are participating in strikes across the country this week. At the same time, anger is growing at the role being played by service sector union Verdi, which refuses to call for joint action. Hungarian teachers begin indefinite strike over pay in year-long dispute; strike across West Bank in response to killings by Israeli military as teachers' stoppage continues; Nigerian public sector workers to begin general strike over cost of living 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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