 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Tuesday and Wednesday, NATO will hold a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, against the backdrop of a media campaign for direct intervention of NATO troops against Russia to prevent the collapse of the Ukrainian war effort. If the UAW bureaucracy retains control over the contract process, it will once again be led to defeat. But if workers organize themselves and take the reins of their fight, the immense strength of the working class can be unleashed. The text to the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter details the abuse of part-time workers by Stellantis management and the United Auto Workers union. The only social force that can prevent another world war is the international working class—that is, the vast majority of the world's population, which today is more numerous and more interconnected than ever before. The Spanish Supreme Court is set to issue a new European Arrest Warrant for Puigdemont and other former Members of the European Parliament, Antoni Comín and Clara Ponsatí. Hosting Zelensky in Istanbul before the war summit in Vilnius, Erdoğan declared his support for Ukraine's NATO membership and authorised the repatriation of the Azov commanders in Turkey. In the run-up to the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, leading German politicians and media outlets are sparking a war hysteria whose aim is the complete military defeat of Russia—even if this means nuclear war. The supposed "left" and even "socialist" congresswoman declared her support Thursday, amid newspaper reports that Biden was about to approve the delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine. The ruling shows how the Democrats have enabled the right wing to pose as defenders of free speech, while exposing details of state-sponsored censorship on social media that is aimed primarily against left-wing and socialist views. The NDP is posturing as a defender of workers' rights, while propping up the federal Liberal government that is colluding with the Biden administration to criminalize or otherwise force a quick end to the B.C. dockers' strike on the employers' terms. Portending a sellout contract on its official Twitter account, the Teamsters inion has promoted over two dozen politicians, mostly Democrats, who blocked railroad workers from striking last year. In this interview, Wheatcroft discusses his findings on the Soviet famine, the attacks on the concept of historical objectivity, and the current climate in academia. The US Geological Survey recently published a study finding that nearly half of US tap water is polluted with fluorinated carbons known as PFAS, which are linked to a range of health conditions. The rank-and-file committee at Macquarie University opposes the union's rush to do a deal with management and demands that the NTEU make public all the details of its proposed terms of settlement. "To deny club status to the IYSSE is a denial of the most basic democratic rights of students to express their thoughts and organize." Amid a witch-hunt and widening censorship exercise, a raft of inconvenient truths has been systematically expunged from Radio NZ reports. Union officials fawned over leading representatives of the big-business Labor government. At the same time they viciously attacked and slandered socialists calling for the strike to be broadened. Over 100 people attended the meeting, including workers from the ports, health, railways, and plantation sectors. Koggala Free Trade Zone, cinnamon industry and hotel workers travelled from Sri Lanka's south to participate. The union-government deal is a deliberate attempt to turn one section of the membership against another, to allow Labor to carry out its austerity agenda. Indigenous Affairs minister Linda Burney's address to the National Press Club was based on the assertion, contrary to all historical experience, that the Voice would provide "practical" solutions to the appalling social conditions impacting the Aboriginal population. 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. The inquiry follows years of reporting of alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan by the SAS. 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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