 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Times writer David Leonhardt omits the words "variant," "evolution," "Long COVID," "cases," "testing" and "wastewater" from his article, because each of these facets of the pandemic show that it is ongoing and remains a threat to masses of people globally. The Ukrainian military was reported to be behind an attack Monday on the Kerch Bridge that links Crimea to the Russian mainland. Wallace is the first cabinet politician to publicly raise the reality that Britain and the whole NATO alliance are on a path to direct war with Russia and even China. Modi's authoritarian record only recommends him to his counterparts internationally. Indeed, on Thursday evening Macron presented him with the Legion of Honor. "We're at a crossroads. If the USW bureaucracy remains in control of this strike, it will starve us into submission, so that the next rotten offer will look enticing by comparison. Can anyone argue otherwise? None of us can survive for long on $260 per week." The imperialist logic of US-Australian geopolitics threatens a stepped up "regime change" operation against the democratically-elected Solomon Islands government. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, was in headlong retreat after her truthful remark that Israel is a racist state came under fire. The figures reported over the weekend show that big money donors have thrown their weight behind DeSantis, Biden and Trump, who combined reported raising nearly $60 million, while former Vice President Mike Pence reported an anemic $1.2 million. Teamsters head Sean O'Brien admitted that the union would keep workers on the job past the August 1 deadline in the event of a last-minute deal, violating their own pledge to strike UPS by the end of the month. "It is entirely possible this may have pushed him harder in the heat," Eugene Gates' widow told WFAA. "He was 66. He might be a little slower than others, and they tell him to pick up the pace? My god, that's an insult to him." Tens of thousands of film and television writers and actors in the US are exhibiting tremendous commitment to their joint strike against the multi-billion-dollar entertainment and media monopolies. The working class has demonstrated its resolve to resist the decades-long wave of social cuts, but is repeatedly betrayed by the trade union bureaucracy and its pseudo-left apologists. Professors, students and teachers are protesting illegal arrests of 22 students in Juyjuy Province while grocery workers in Metro Toronto are set to strike midnight Tuesday While broad sectors of the pseudo-left have embraced the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, groups like the Workers Cause Party in Brazil seek to divert opposition to imperialism into support for bourgeois nationalism. The Biden administration is providing major subsidies to high-tech firms which base all or part of their operations in the US leading to what has been described as a global subsidies race. Governments, both Labor and Liberal-National, have forced universities to rely ever-more heavily on private sources of cash, particularly full fee-paying international students and corporate partnerships. Councils in London have 166,000 people living in temporary accommodation, equal to the population of entire London boroughs, or the population of cities the size of Oxford. On July 7, Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands since 2010, resigned. New elections are scheduled for November. 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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