 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In its decision, Fitch Ratings Agency said there had been a "steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters." Crucial workers' struggles in Turkey are part of a global strike movement. The subway strike in Izmir, the third largest city in the country, is one of them. With voting beginning on the sellout tentative agreement, workers must enforce rank-and-file oversight to prevent fraud by the union bureaucracy . The SEP held a well-attended and moving meeting last Saturday honouring the life of former general secretary Wije Dias and his decades-long political struggle for Trotskyism. In a Facebook live event Tuesday evening, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain outlined what he said the UAW was demanding in its contract talks with GM, Ford and Stellantis. Around 200 healthcare workers at Loretto Hospital, a safety-net hospital on Chicago's West Side, went on strike for living wages. The WSWS had the opportunity to speak to Canadian forest fire scientist, Dr. Ellen Whitman, on the recent unprecedented fires raging across the Canadian boreal forests. "The IYSSE's anti-war perspective has come under attack internationally, including by university managements, governments and fascistic Ukrainian nationalist groups that have tried, unsuccessfully, to block, obstruct or shut down a series of its meetings." There has been a shocking decline in the global Human Development Index (HDI), measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. It has declined for two years in a row, for the first time ever. No justice will come from trying a child as an adult; in doing so, it will not address the underlying social and cultural factors and pressures that played their part, namely the glorification of violence, militarism, and profit. 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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