 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The four years spent by Leon Trotsky from 1929 to 1933 on the island of Prinkipo will be commemorated on August 20. The date also marks the 83rd anniversary of Trotsky's assassination. Biden pledged that "Our commitment to Ukraine" will last "as long as it takes." What these words really mean is that the United States is willing to accept as many deaths as it takes to achieve its goals for the war. In their determination to take on some of the largest and most predatory corporations in the world, the writers and actors reflect the feelings and concerns of tens of millions in the US and beyond. The WSWS interviewed striking writers and their actor supporters, who were about to become strikers, outside Netflix operations at Sunset Bronson Studios in Los Angeles July 13. In this video, Socialist Equality Party Assistant National Secretary Lawrence Porter spoke with Gary Tyler, who spent 42 years in Louisiana's Angola penitentiary for a crime he didn't commit. Gary Tyler, a class war prisoner for nearly 42 years in Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana, has opened his first solo gallery exhibit of representational quilt work, paying tribute to those who were part of the long struggle for his freedom. The 13-day strike has demonstrated that dockworkers confront a battle on two fronts: against the union-NDP backed Liberal government, which enforces the demands of the corporate elite and seeks to smash any resistance that obstructs the ruling class agenda of war and austerity; and against the union bureaucracy, which serves the ruling class by suppressing the class struggle Defending Canadian dockworkers' strike against the combined conspiracy of Canadian and the US governments and the BC maritime employers is a class responsibility of every worker in every country. Tuesday's subcommittee hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic targeted the scientists who found that the virus that causes the deadly infection had a natural origin and was not manufactured in a lab. Next Monday, the student representatives' conference of the Ruhr University Bochum is to vote on a motion to ban IYSSE events at the university and to ban socialist and anti-militarist positions from the campus. Heavy rainfall kills over 100 people in India, following heatwaves that took the lives of almost 200 The Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party-led national government, like its Congress Party-led predecessor, refuses to take any real action to prevent the devastating impact of climatic catastrophes or provide adequate relief. In a social media posting, the fascist ex-president denounced a US attorney for not seeking a "death sentence" for President Biden's son. Orlando police delayed showing the body camera footage to the family of 26-year-old Derek Diaz for over a week. Elected in March this year, the New South Wales Labor government quickly began removing COVID-19 safety measures, worsening infection rates and intensifying the attack on public healthcare. Throughout the NTEU meeting, union representatives repeatedly insisted that members must not demand too much from management, and definitely not pay rises to match the soaring cost-of-living. "We say to our brothers at UPS: Seize the initiative," the statement by the Postal Workers Workers Rank-and-File Committee said. "Do not allow the Teamsters' leadership to wear down your fight." Chow is a stalwart of the union-sponsored NDP—a right-wing, pro-big business party that is propping up the federal Liberal government as it wages war against Russia, massively increases military spending and attacks workers' democratic and social rights. "Ward and his overpaid sidekicks are throwing away rights won by previous generations. Their names will live on in ignominy." National 24-hour rail strike in Italy over collective agreement as airlines hit by stoppages; journalists at French paper Journal du Dimanche in week three of strike against appointment of far-right editor; around 60 female students at university in Tehran banned from campus for peaceful protests against wearing the hijab; truck drivers in Kenya paralyse trade around Mombasa in sit-down strike over conditions, blocking northern corridor with parked up trucks Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a "final" series of public sector pay offers, to be funded by cuts to government budgets, including a 6 percent pay rise for junior doctors. The actors' and writers' strike is a courageous action the actors and writers are taking on behalf of their own interests and the interests of the entire working class. 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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