 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In a major new milestone in the bipartisan effort to censor the internet and undermine the freedom of speech in America, the state of Montana signed into law a ban on the distribution of the TikTok social media app Wednesday. A succession of US presidents, Democratic and Republican, share responsibility for the worst crimes of the 21st century. Identity politics operates consciously to divide the working class, pitting blacks against whites, women against men and so on, and generally to inject as much confusion and ideological poison into the atmosphere as possible. WSWS reporters spoke Wednesday with striking writers and their supporters on the picket lines in Los Angeles. On Wednesday, 160 Constellium workers in suburban Detroit launched a strike to demand improved health and safety conditions and wage increases to compensate for the soaring cost of living. The cancellation had the character of a snub. Some militarist commentators have suggested dissatisfaction in Washington over the slow pace of an Australian military build-up directed towards preparing for war against China. The speech, full of vague phrases, again demonstrated the Democratic Party's reliance on the promotion of racial politics to block a socialist movement of the working class and youth in opposition to capitalism and war. The child's death comes only days after an unaccompanied Honduran 17-year-old held at a Florida detention center died while under the care of the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. The latest ban will further undermine abortion access in the southern US. Protesters the authorities allege were involved in attacks on military installations or personnel will be tried in military courts that are closed to the media and public and whose rulings cannot be appealed, even to Pakistan's Supreme Court. Dockers in the Port of Rosario struck after a sixty-year old longshoreman drowned on May 12 in Argentina's Parana River. The drug shortages in the US have reached historic highs. In particular, the scarcity of chemotherapy drugs means people with cancers face delays in treatments which will have lethal consequences. The Wickremesinghe government's response to the worsening health crisis is revealed in its 2023 budget, with 539 billion rupees for the military-police repressive apparatus and just 322 billion rupees for health. Contrary to the media spin, the Labour government's budget continues to starve healthcare, welfare and other services, while significantly increasing military spending. Dozens of teachers, parents, paraprofessionals, nurses and others insisted they are not willing to trade the jobs of some for pay raises for others. The ending of protections relating to the COVID-19 public health emergency, such as eviction moratoriums and emergency housing assistance, has greatly increased homelessness in the region of the American capital National strike in Belgium against "social dumping" by Delhaize and other companies to drive down wages and conditions; continuing strikes and protests across Iran over cost of living, pay and conditions involving pensioners, Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers as strike leaders of offshore gas workers arrested; Nigerian doctors give union mandate for indefinite stoppage over pay, unions call five-day warning strike Before any member has cast a single vote on the deal proposed to end the national dispute on the surrender terms offered by the CWU leadership, it is being treated as an accomplished fact. 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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