 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The talks had the character of a corporatist conspiracy against autoworkers—a plot by the highest levels of the state and the UAW bureaucracy to enforce the demands of the corporations onto workers. Although the government intervened in the dispute early on and the employers have been baying for state action against the dockers from day-one, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union opposes any strategy to mobilize the working class to oppose a government-dictated settlement, whether imposed by a back-to-work law or some other means. On Wednesday, Netflix reported total revenue of $8.2 billion in the second quarter of 2023, with net income of $1.5 billion. The Media Entertainment Arts Alliance has made clear to the US entertainment corporations that there will be no disruption to their productions in Australia during the strike. The centerpiece of Talisman Sabre is a massive land, air and sea invasion of an island in the Pacific, clearly directed against the Chinese military. While Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution denying that Israel is a racist state, the White House invited the racist-in-chief, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to make an official visit to Washington.. The 170,000 autoworkers in all the other operations of the Detroit Three in Canada and the United States who face—or will face—EV retooling programs, would do well to learn the lessons of the CAMI experience. Promoted as "left" unions, workers are experiencing firsthand that the RMT and CWU are no different from any other union in their collusion with the employers and their sabotage of any effective fightback against the corporate-government assault. The pseudo-left group Lutte Ouvrière has reacted to the recent riots sparked by the killing of a 17-year-old youth by police by denouncing working-class youth. Instead of €100 million as originally announced, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (Social Democrat, SPD) wants to make only €21 million available for Long Covid research and the development of therapies and drugs against it. The tragic deaths highlight the danger of flu, which has killed at least 134 people in Australia this year, and, in particular, Influenza B, the effects of which tend to be most severe among pregnant women and children, including those who are otherwise healthy. Reject management-union privatisation and job destruction program at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Appeals for increased retrenchment payouts is a cynical manoeuvre by union bureaucrats who are simply asking for a higher price for the destruction of jobs that they have no right to sell. Management walked out of resumed negotiations after just six minutes, rejecting the UE's proposed concessions as inadequate. In wake of recent shootings in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Democratic Party and pseudo-left officials have spearheaded a law and order crackdown. The sellout deal for transit workers formalized on Wednesday was coupled with fare and toll hikes for commuters. Residents of the Northside neighborhood of Kalamazoo are fighting the global paper manufacturing company Graphic Packaging International and the local, state and federal government to stop the poisoning of their community with toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. The outspoken rapper responds to this moment of capitalism's intersecting crises … with an album that worships God and Mammon. Strike at French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche against imposition of far-right editor into fourth week; protests by pensioners and workers including teachers in Shiraz and Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers continue in Iran; mass protests in Kenya over cost-of-living crisis met with police violence 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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