 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The declaration by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that the Ukraine war began in 2014 completely contradicts the narrative repeated endlessly by the White House and US media. After a mass movement of workers and rural masses chased Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapakse from power last year, the Pakistani ruling class fears these protests could trigger a mass working class upsurge. Sri Lanka's corporate banks have reaped exorbitant profits while consecutive Colombo governments have placed the full burden of the economic crisis on workers and the rural masses. A lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase gives a window into the narrow, incestuous world of financial-state power. The ex-president did not make a defense in the lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, effectively conceding the case despite his bluster on social media. The Biden administration is pressing forward with a regime of repression against what is expected to be a surge in migrants arriving at the US southern border as the Title 42 public health expulsions are lifted. Chicago's shelters and social services have been overwhelmed by the arrival of more than 8,100 migrants, many of whom were bused to the city by Republican governors suc The following is a statement by the rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker and candidate for UAW president in last year's election, calling on all autoworkers to come to the aid of striking auto battery workers in Toledo, Ohio. On Monday, the Washington Post reported that the UK's Ministry of Defence had issued a call to weapons manufacturers, on behalf of the International Fund for Ukraine, to supply missiles capable of striking Russian-annexed Crimea or cities deep inside Russia's borders. Early last week, the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) launched a "cross-media image campaign." Like earlier media campaigns, it glorifies militarism and nationalism, but this time aims even more openly to prepare the public for a new world war and to recruit the necessary cannon fodder. Twenty-six thousand troops from fourteen countries were assembled amid the escalation of war in Ukraine and the drawing of Finland and Sweden into NATO. The Morenoites have lined up behind the main bourgeois opposition alliance through an alliance with Stalinism and Kurdish nationalism. The decision of the all-trade union alliance to strangle the protests against Macron's pension cuts and relaunch talks with Macron is a naked betrayal of the working class. Corporatism asserts a common interest between workers and employers and means the total subordination of the working class to the profit dictates of the company. The bitter experience of the past 15 years shows that there is no such "common interest." The unions are seeking to keep teachers and other workers divided so they can impose a sellout agreement in line with the Labour government's austerity agenda. After massive budget cuts in 2020, Sweetwater Union High School District in San Diego, California, district officials threaten a further casualization of the teaching workforce and deeper cuts to vital programs and services. While agreeing to raises far below inflation, Spanish union officials are discussing their fear that, as in France, they could not control strikes and protests if they called them. The Australian Labor government is itself presiding over prosecutions aimed at punishing those who have exposed war crimes in Afghanistan, in a clear parallel with the attempted US extradition of Assange. In spite of its "militant" posturing, the Teamsters bureaucracy is under immense pressure to work out a deal before the July 31 deadline to avoid a strike by 340,000 UPS workers. Amid declining wages, widespread casual employment and a housing crisis, graduates are being hit with a hike in student debt repayments. Artificial intelligence is at the center of the strike by film and television writers against the studios and networks that are implementing the new tools to eliminate workers and cut hours to increase profitability. Among other regressive elements in the new budget is an increase in the number of charter schools permitted across the state and a derisory increase in the state's minimum wage, which will leave workers even worse off than they already are. Workers were determined and carried out spirited early morning picketing the first day of the strike, but the Teamsters bureaucrats, led by the union's former General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall, shut down the pickets because they successfully shut down operations. The WSWS spoke with Jess about Jimari Williams' death and the broader context in which it took place, as governments throughout the world dismantle all mitigation measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 and other pathogens. While the capitalist politicians have no response or solutions to massacres committed by Nazis, both Republicans and Democrats boasted of their efforts to militarize the US-Mexico border. Half of the city's population cannot afford to live there, the Fund for the City of New York admits. Africa, too, is increasingly coming into the focus of German imperialism. The coalition government is aggressively pursuing the goal of increasing Berlin's political, economic, and military influence on the resource-rich continent. 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. 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