 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Wednesday's editorial in the New York Times signals a turning point in the developing attack on Social Security, Medicare and other critical social benefits. While the Teamster bureaucrats will continue their efforts to try and block a strike, their failure to do so by now suggests they are beginning to lose control of the situation. Their attempts to keep workers in line through PR maneuvering collides with the objective and irreconcilable class interests of workers and management. Next week, NATO will hold a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, where the military alliance will announce plans to rapidly expand military spending, surge troops to Russia's borders, and dramatically increase its involvement in the war in Ukraine. Teachers opposing the Conservative government's below-inflation pay offer spoke with WSWS reporters about the broader crisis in public education. The cuts would mean huge staff reductions in subjects including art, media, education, architecture, engineering, humanities and sport science, greatly increasing the workloads of those who remain. In this video, Will Lehman and his attorney discuss the lawsuit Lehman filed Monday against the Biden administration's Department of Labor over the fraudulent UAW election. Autoworker Rank-and-File Network members support Will Lehman's lawsuit against the Labor Department sanction of the rigged UAW election. The unprecedented low-cost loan to Ford by the Biden administration reveals the extent to which the transition to EV production is being underwritten by the capitalist state. What started as friction between neighbors was transformed into attacks targeting refugees. The responsibility for this poisonous atmosphere lies with the entire political establishment. PSOE and Sumar are now waging a political campaign that hands the political initiative to the Popular Party and Vox National security has been invoked to impose a series of sweeping technology bans on China aimed at crippling its economic development in this crucial area. Public professions of friendship could not hide fundamental divergences between the two countries as the US intensifies the war against Russia in Ukraine while step-by-step preparing for conflict with China. Macquarie University's refusal to affiliate an IYSSE club, despite it having met all the requirements, is receiving international condemnation as an attack on democratic rights aimed at silencing opposition to war. In a two-page statement, buried on an official website, the state Labor government has decreed that up to 70 percent of COVID cases will no longer be counted. Four people were killed late Tuesday evening in a gunfight at an outdoor party in Shreveport, Louisiana, bringing the number of deaths from mass shootings during the July 4th holiday to 15. The KCTU is attempting to dispel workers' anger over declining social and economic conditions while directing them back behind the opposition Democratic Party. In interviews with the WSWS, striking film and television workers reflected on the current state of the writers strike and denounced the extension imposed by SAG-AFTRA last week. Eighteen hotels resumed work Wednesday morning while a 19th, the Fairmont Miramar, briefly locked out the striking workers. 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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