 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The strike shows that any strategy which defines workers' interests in the framework of the national state and isolates workers in one country from other countries is hopelessly obsolete. Israel carried out acts of wanton vandalism. Their aim is to capture the armed groups resisting Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories and their arms caches, make life for the camp's residents untenable and terrify and intimidate civilians throughout the West Bank. A significant study published Jul y 1 in N ature Communications sheds light on the horrific wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths that swept across China last winter after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abruptly ended its life-saving Zero-COVID policy. The study, titled "Swift and extensive Omicron outbreak in China after sudden exit from 'zero-COVID' policy," is the most comprehensive model published to date detailing the impacts of the rapid lifting of all mitigation measures, testing, and reporting of cases. The 2023 wildfire season in Canada is the largest on record, severely impacting air quality across North America and even parts of Europe. These massive fires, driven by climate change, have significant impact on global population health. While the shipping bosses are escalating their concessions demands and corporate Canada is clamouring for the Trudeau government to criminalize the workers' job action, the ILWU is working to isolate the militant BC dock strike Up to 15,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, have struck 65 hotels in the Los Angeles metro area As workers enter the 12th day of their strike against Wabtec, workers have confirmed that the company began hiring scabs two weeks before the strike. The NHS was the jewel in the crown of the post-war welfare state and has been cherished by millions of workers ever since. But it has been brought to the brink of collapse by systematic underfunding and the principle of care "free at the point of use" is in severe peril. The WSWS has received numerous letters calling on the university administration of Berlin's Humboldt University to stop the obstruction of the IYSSE's anti-war election campaign for the student parliament by Ukrainian nationalists and right-wing students and professors and to exercise its legal supervision over the elections that took place Tuesday. In order to transform Germany into the leading military power in Europe, social spending is being slashed and all areas of society are being subordinated to war policy. According to Verite Research, even based on the prevailing average interest rate, conservatively calculated as 13 percent, the pension fund will lose staggering 12 trillion rupees ($US39 billion) by 2038. Over the past four days, dozens of people have been shot and at least 14 killed in mass shootings across the US. Adams responded to vocal criticism by an 84-year-old Jewish housing activist by comparing her to a plantation owner under slavery. In the face of the move to invalidate the results, setting the stage for a far-right coup, Bernardo Arévalo and his Semilla party offer no "democratic" alternative. Despite the carefully stage-managed atmosphere created by the HSU bureaucracy, the two-day conference featured occasional expressions of the nascent anger below the surface. The mass sackings at NZ Post are part of a wave of job cuts under the Labour-led government, and replicate vast restructuring operations hitting postal workers internationally. For all the fanfare, the surplus is actually a result of Labor's program to enforce the biggest cut to working-class living conditions since World War II, by slashing social spending and real wage levels. Chevalier and the life of composer Joseph Bologne: Why the mean-spirited attack on Mozart and Gluck? Chevalier is seriously marred, not only by the gravitational pull of identity-racial politics but by a generally low level of historical knowledge and understanding. More than 38,000 subway, bus and other transit workers are currently voting on the sellout contract Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials have reached with the Metropolitan Transit Authority and state and local Democratic Party officials. According to Belvidere workers, the company has been ordering the few employees who remain to dismantle assembly equipment for months, so that it can be shipped to its facilities elsewhere. Having extracted a pledge to restore "joint working", the CWU is moving to enforce the company's brutal dictates against postal workers. This is the meaning of a slew of directives issued by the union's leadership to local branches and reps over the past week. 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