 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Since February 2022, the American public has been subjected to a ceaseless barrage of propaganda surrounding the Ukraine war, aiming to get the American population to support US involvement in a brutal, fratricidal military conflict on the other side of the globe. The ending of the national emergency declaration is the second of three major legal shifts which will privatize all aspects of what has been the US government's response to the pandemic. To prevent a defeat of their struggle, striking Rutgers workers must break free from the stranglehold of the union bureaucracies and the Democrats and build independent rank-and-file committees to deepen and broaden their fight. Netanyahu has given the green light to the fascists, racists and religious zealots that make up his government to incite the Palestinians in the run up to the end of Ramadan and provoke an uprising to be used as the excuse for a military onslaught. The hike in military spending, aiming to prepare for great-power conflict, is funded by sweeping pension cuts that have provoked explosive social opposition in France. The far-right UCC is pressing Canada's federal government to censor and suppress anti-war meetings and actions on the basis of the fraudulent smear they constitute "anti-Ukrainian hate." Doctors are fighting for a pay increase, after having their pay held down by a series of pay freezes and below inflation deals since 2008. According to the BMA, junior doctors have suffered a pay cut of 35 percent since 2008. Junior doctors in the British Medical Association are taking four consecutive days of strikes this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters visited picket lines on the first day of the action. Thousands of students walked out of classrooms in more than 300 schools across the US last week, in opposition to ongoing school shootings and gun violence. A common feature of the pervasive corruption of capitalist politicians in America is the practice of using privileged information to make stock trades, particularly in the midst of the recurring crises that beset Wall Street. Last month's government bailout of rich depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank is no exception. Last week, a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the East Palestine derailment site overturned, with the driver suffering injuries in the crash. The IMF has forecast "feeble and uneven" global growth of just 2.8 percent this year, compared to 3.4 percent last year, with the major economies expanding by only 1.3 percent. The real purpose of these events is to funnel every aspect of workers' anger into the safe channel of union-organised protests and away from any challenge to the political establishment. A yes vote would give the union the ability to call a strike after the current contract expires May 1. A Reserve Bank of Australia report demonstrates the class war character of its interest rate hikes, which are particularly targeting low-income households in order to slash their spending, drive up unemployment and suppress wages further. Air traffic controllers took umbrage at the brazen misuse of their dues money for luxury travel by the union bureaucrats. The start of April has seen strikes and protests by educators across Argentina while 35,000 Canadian federal taxation workers have voted to authorize strike by a wide margin. State legislatures across the US have introduced a series of bills to make it easier to discipline, suspend and expel school children as young as kindergarten. 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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