 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. While workers went into struggle to defeat Royal Mail's offensive, the Communication Workers Union's sole concern was to preserve its longstanding role as corporate partner. The PSOE-Podemos government is calling snap elections to hand over power to the right and escalate European participation in the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine. Mehring Books is pleased to announce the publication of Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics by Lawrence Porter, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US). Last Thursday, Indiana's Medical Licensing Board fined and reprimanded Dr. Caitlin Bernard on false allegations that she violated her patient's privacy. The far-reaching ruling by the ultra-right majority seeks to dismantle 50 years of environmental regulations Police were called to the picket line at Constellium Automotive in Van Buren Township south of Detroit last Thursday to escort scab trucks in and out of the factory that supplies the flagship Ford plants producing F-series pickups and the new electric Lightning trucks. In a display of far-right, anti-Russian chauvinism, three Ukrainian writers refused to give a presentation at the PEN America World Voices festival if the festival also sponsored a panel with three Russian writers. Mexico is closing migrant shelters and busing migrants from its northern border to its southern and interior states, while threatening those who continue to the north with deportation. Added to the neglect of infrastructure is the utter indifference with which capitalist government politicians approach climate change. To stop another union betrayal, the dispute at Macquarie can and must become part of a wider counter-offensive by educators and other workers. The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee supports all actions taken by workers in the sector. But the token stop-work meetings and work bans called by the HSU bureaucracy will do nothing to resolve the crisis in health. Sanctions imposed by the US and the major imperialist powers against Russia at the start of the Ukraine war have produced some unintended consequences, most notably attempts to shift away from dependence on the dollar as the global reserve currency. Dockworkers in Chile and on Argentina's Parana River struck last week, while 600 flight attendants for Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines have voted to authorize a strike. The holdings of the 10 wealthiest people in Australia increased by an average of 10 percent, to over $200 billion in total, during the past 12 months. In a mass email sent May 11, Ochsner Health CEO Peter November announced the layoff of 770 employees, approximately 2 percent of Ochsner's workforce. 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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