 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Following a bloody debacle in the first phase of the offensive, Ukrainian conscripts are once again being thrust into well-defended front lines, dying by the thousands in minefields and trenches. The American media paid almost no attention to the decision of the administration to host Georgia Meloni, a fervent admirer of Benito Mussolini, the brutal dictator who ruled Italy for more than two decades and was allied with Hitler in World War II. The EU has promised Tunisia's autocratic ruler financial aid worth €900 million in return for preventing refugees from reaching its borders. It reveals that the antidemocratic claim that accusers "must be believed" is not accepted by wide layers of the population, who remain convinced that the accused too have rights. Oppenheimer is a serious and appropriately disturbing film about nuclear weapons and nuclear war. It is intended to leave viewers shaken, and it succeeds in that. Workers are outraged over the sellout tentative agreement announced this week at UPS. The Teamsters union reached the deal, which falls far short of workers' demands, in order to head off a national strike by 340,000 workers, which would have started next Tuesday. A West Virginia rural letter carrier describes deteriorating conditions under the new compensation scheme. The company has used the time which the union bureaucracy has bought for them to prepare for bankruptcy, threatening thousands of jobs. The lessons of the Korean War should not be forgotten. It is a graphic demonstration of the ruthlessness with which US imperialism will pursue its economic and strategic interests with complete disregard for human life and suffering. The visits came amid a surge in diplomatic activity as Canberra and Washington intensify pressure across the Pacific to step up in the escalating confrontation with China. On July 17, the Student Representatives Conference (FSVK) of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) passed a resolution in camera calling for opponents of war and socialists to be censored and banned from campus. Canadian and American autoworkers must seize the opportunity presented by the upcoming contract expirations on both sides of the border to unite in a powerful, internationally coordinated struggle against General Motors, Stellantis and Ford. This year's DSA convention will attempt the impossible: to present the strikebreaking, pro-imperialist DSA as "socialist." In the most cynical and mealy-mouthed fashion possible, Hill was signaling that the Labor government will do nothing more to secure Assange's freedom. There is a definite element of diversion in the AEU bureaucracy's promotion of the time in lieu question, while Australia has one of the most privatised and socially polarised school systems in the world. The World Socialist Web Site spoke with a New York City teacher, who details the impact of the just-ratified agreement. Greece has been at the epicentre of the fires, with the Greek Fire Brigade fighting a losing battle against more than 500 blazes for almost two weeks. Strikes across Portuguese National Health Service over pay, conditions and staffing including one-day national strike of GPs and pharmacists; electricity workers in Lebanon join indefinite four-month-long public sector pay strike; Nigerian doctors at University College Hospital begin three-week strike over colleagues' wages unpaid for three months 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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