 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Special counsel Smith's letter at once reflects and intensifies an unprecedented crisis of the US political system, under conditions where the Biden administration has committed the US to expanding the war against Russia in Ukraine into a global war of indefinite duration. As a consequence of their fight for wage increases at least equal to inflation and improved job protections—demands shared by all workers, private and public sector alike—the dockworkers find themselves pitted in a direct political confrontation with the trade union-backed Liberal government, the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state and all corporate Canada. Striking film and television workers, many who have been on the picket lines for weeks, joined UPS workers at the rally. On the verge of bankruptcy, Yellow is deep in debt and is unable to pay for workers' benefits as Wall Street demands deeper cuts. On June 14, a fishing vessel carrying hundreds of refugees, the Adriana, sank off the Greek port city of Pylos. Roughly 600 people, including children, drowned. A central element of the return of German militarism is the complete orientation of society towards war, including at home. On display are some 40 colour photographs from a private collection of 380 slides taken by Wehrmacht (German army) doctor Albert Dieckmann during his deployment with advancing troops in occupied Belarus, Russia and Poland. Taiwan's vice-president, Lai Ching-teh, who is also a candidate in next January's presidential election, is making a trip to the Americas next month that is likely to further exacerbate tensions with China. After decades' of betrayals by the UAW bureaucracy, workers in the union president's home area are looking for a new way to fight. Coordinated action between RMT and ASLEF members has the capacity to stop the government's Great British Railways blueprint in its tracks. But Mick Lynch and ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan have again ensured that no unified action will be taken. The offer represents a wage cut for 2022-23 of near 7 percent and a likely further cut for 2023-24, depending on the rate of inflation. Teachers have already suffered a wage loss of over 17 percent since 2010. With real wages being cut and the cost of living rising across the board, rents have grown over the past 12 months at some of the fastest rates on record. On Tuesday, the Michigan attorney general announced felony charges against 16 Republicans, who signed their names to a slate of false presidential electors aimed at switching the outcome of the state's presidential vote from Biden to Trump in December 2020. The report found that anti-immigrant "dawn raids" were so entrenched that Labour's vaunted 2021 apology to the Pacific Island community appeared "to ring hollow." 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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