 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The banks, hedge funds, investment companies and other Wall Street parasites are raking in billions of dollars in profits from the immiseration of tens of millions of student loan borrowers and their families—perhaps a third of the US population in all. Autoworkers are speaking out and organizing opposition to the backtracking of UAW President Shawn Fain demanding that strike action be prepared for and carried out against the Big Three. Hannah, a 28-year-old temporary part-time (TPT) worker at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant, described what it is like to be a TPT and why workers are determined to overturn years of UAW-backed concessions. Fain and the UAW bureaucrats aren't putting forward a strategy, but the rank and file must, in order to take control of our struggle. Mack Trucks and the pro-company UAW bureaucracy are planning to start an electric vehicle jobs bloodbath in the 2023 contract Former Trump attorney John Eastman, facing disbarment in California, confirmed that he discussed a plan to replace Pence with Senator Charles Grassley to preside over the congressional session to confirm the Electoral College vote. Jill Biden's COVID reinfection has exposed the Biden administration's utter farce and hypocrisy in declaring the pandemic over. A regime of mass deportations and administrative detentions, long used against the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, will inevitably be used against Israeli workers as well. The Sri Lankan economy contracted by 7.8 percent in 2022 with the destruction of half a million jobs, mainly concentrated in construction, transport, food and accommodation. Faculty, staff and students of West Virginia University spoke with the World Socialist Web Site outside the College of Creative Arts Wednesday afternoon and voiced opposition to plans for the elimination of 169 faculty and slashing of 39 majors. A letter sent by the NTEU amounted to a plea for management to finalise an agreement with the union as quickly as possible to head off further industrial action. A shunting supervisor, wagon master and train dispatcher at national rail operator Deutsche Bahn report on their working conditions. Postal workers confront a barrage of revisions to terms and conditions agreed by the CWU executive in April, as part of the Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement with Royal Mail. After months on strike, US film and television writers' and actors' anger reaching the boiling point Workers have shown enormous strength, at the same time the sacrifices are taking their toll, and outrage against the companies is growing. Kaiser workers at SEIU Local 105 in Colorado voted 99 percent to strike as COVID-19 surges across the US and internationally. As teachers enter into struggles internationally, Evergreen and Camas public school teachers in Washington state are striking for cost-of-living salary increases, smaller class sizes and increased funding for schools. Four federal indictments charge 10 police officers from two different police departments, Antioch and Pittsburg, with multiple crimes including excessive force, fraud, distributing anabolic steroids and falsifying police reports. Both the ChiArts agreement and the decision to force students into schools during a dangerous heatwave underscore the need for teachers to build the Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Committee to take control over negotiations and safety out of the hands of union officials. Except for the lockdowns during the pandemic, the last time GDP per capita was smaller than it was a year earlier was during the global financial crisis and before that in the recession of the early 1990s. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation has ordered its 60,000 members to vote on a proposal to send all outstanding contract issues to binding arbitration by October 27, ruling out all strike action in this bargaining round in the process. Unions representing elementary teachers and Catholic teachers are dragging their feet with strike votes. Olsen's exuberant, semi-abstract and free-flowing Australian landscape paintings directly challenged the previously formal approach to the genre. Teachers' strikes mark beginning of new school year across Europe over funding, cost of living and the pandemic; metal workers at Turkish factory demand resignation of union officials over sellout contract and threaten to leave the union; teachers, electricity and public sector workers in some Nigerian states in further two-day strike over cuts to fuel subsidies 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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