 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The following is the text of the opening report delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to the International May Day Online Rally 2023, held Sunday, April 30. Biden's remarks at the White House Correspondents Association dinner embraced freedom of the press, but only for journalists working in countries where Washington is seeking to overthrow the government. The CDC is expected to end "community level" tracking of COVID-19 with the end of the emergency phase of the pandemic. As Canadian government workers push to expand strike, union leaders stay silent on negotiating blitz Rather than alerting federal government workers and the working class more broadly to the government's strikebreaking plans, the PSAC bureaucrats have fallen silent. The ongoing financial crisis raises the question of how many more mines are lodged within the system waiting to explode because the report on the collapse of SVB released last week by Fed vice chair Michael Barr makes clear its demise proceeded in plain sight. Writers are prepared to strike to win substantial wage increases and reverse decades of WGA-backed concessions. The latest horrendous mass shooting in the United States is one of several recent incidents in which heavily armed people respond with mass violence to mundane requests or mishaps. Discontent and a willingness to fight is spreading in the working class in Germany. However, success requires a perspective that can organise the struggles independently of the trade unions such as Verdi and IG Metall. It now turns out that there was no "two-stage" deal leaving the possibility of renewed strike action on offer, and the RMT was engaged in either wishful thinking or wilful deception of its members. Those who voted against, or abstained, have no fundamental disagreements with the International Monetary Fund demands but are cynically attempting to capitalise on the rising mass opposition. As US imperialism has ramped up its preparations for war with China over the past decade, it has increasingly intervened directly into the affairs of the Pacific island states, and Biden's trip dramatically escalates that. The country's richest 311 people hold $85 billion in assets and pay less than half the tax rate paid by ordinary working people. This is not a "victory" as unions claim, but a tactical shift. Svitzer is seeking to take advantage of new "intractable bargaining" laws introduced late last year by the federal Labor government. This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago. 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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