 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. A powerful strike movement has begun to emerge in the US and internationally in recent weeks, involving tens of thousands of workers across different industries, coming into headlong conflict with the union apparatuses. The simultaneous heatwaves across the world are a direct result of global warming. A recently published study found that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of new cases of type 1 diabetes in children has increased far beyond expectations. The agreement to avert a strike is a sellout that resolves nothing for Yellow freight workers and does not commit the company to pay a penny of its $50 million pension obligations. We are posting here a roundup of video comments from actors and writers, UPS workers and autoworkers that appeared on the World Socialist Web Site in the last week. The decision marks yet another miserable capitulation by the union bureaucracy to the pro-war, pro-austerity Liberal government, which made clear its intention to employ ruthless state repression if dockers had resumed strike action. Chants of "One struggle, one fight, we support SAG-AFTRA's strike!" rang across Leicester Square at Friday's rally of Equity members. The WSWS spoke to a variety of people, including actors and writers, but also scenic artists, members of IATSE. Also present were New York City teachers and high school students. Under the proposed union-management deal, API workers will receive an average nominal wage rise of 4.5 per annum over four years, keeping their wages lower than their counterparts in other warehouses. Unite Here Local 11 has called a third "strike wave" beginning Thursday while it maneuvers with owners and Democrats. "Courses must be designed with the skills needs of industry in mind," Labor's Accord report insists. With Fiji experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis the seven-month-old Rabuka-led government has launched a sweeping attack on living standards. The IYSSE is being targeted because it "is the only organization that advances a genuine anti-war perspective based on the unification of the international working class against the capitalist nation-state system." This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago. Each of 1,380 plaintiffs will receive about $10,000 for claims of abuse and illegal arrest. One driver said, "All the big companies made profits over COVID. The government is investing in things we don't need, like going to war. We're in a war here with our circumstances." Protests are regularly outlawed, with police setting up blockades to stop marching demonstrators and refusing to provide details of the rising number of dead, injured and arrested. 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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