 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The role of SYRIZA in Greece is a strategic experience for the international working class, demonstrating the bankruptcy of claims made by pseudo-left tendencies around the world that meaningful change can be made by voting their pro-capitalist parties into government. The Tories' large majority is waving the strike bill through its parliamentary stages, but its smooth passage into law is being guaranteed by the lack of any organised opposition. The courageous stand by the 525 striking Clarios workers has won widespread support from workers across the US and internationally. In a fight for improved pay and benefits, the residents are waging the first strike by New York City doctors since 1990. On loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare focuses on 1947, the year that eight writers, one producer and a director were hauled before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC). Three years after the Trump administration terminated EcoHealth's grant to study bat coronaviruses in China, the NIH has reinstated the grant with full funding. Despite receiving 566 submissions, many from Long COVID sufferers and concerned scientists and doctors, the report minimalised the impact of this "mass disabling event." The driver, 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri, reportedly expressed his affinity for the Nazis and Hitler in an interview with the Secret Service following the attack. The shooting occurred in the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, which, according to the CBP, has the highest number of use-of-force incidents across the agency with 158 incidents reported so far this year. Students should turn to the working class and wage a fight for its political independence from all parties and agencies of the bourgeoisie, including the trade unions and pseudo-left organisations such as the FSP. The Modi government is trying to eviscerate the citizenry's constitutionally protected democratic right to free expression on social media by creating a bureaucracy to suppress "fake, false or misleading" news, especially about its own actions. In their successful campaign to win re-election at the labour federation's triennial convention, CLC President Bruske and her leadership team boasted about their role in brokering the anti-worker NDP-Liberal parliamentary and governmental alliance. The union had called off a strike without a vote last week, with only nine days left in the school year as a method of pressuring teachers to accept the sellout contract. While the strikers confront a hostile government and employer, their struggle for wage increases and improved working conditions has resonated powerfully throughout the working class. Cherelle Parker won the nomination on a pro-police platform and pseudo-left Helen Gym came in third, under conditions of worsening social conditions in Philadelphia. NTEU officials anxiously prevented debate on a Committee for Public Education motion calling for the formation of a rank-and-file committee to take forward the fight at Macquarie and a broader struggle. What happened to Clare Nowland speaks volumes about two critical issues—the rising levels of police violence and the appalling conditions in chronically-underfunded aged care homes. UM Health, run by the University of Michigan regents, took over Lansing-based Sparrow Health last month. While the deal has been praised as a breakthrough after months of failed negotiations, the one million acre-feet of water saved each year is far below the nearly four million the Bureau of Reclamation says will be necessary to balance demand and supply in the basin. 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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