 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The deadly fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, is a horrific social crime triggered by the deplorable conditions confronting billions of people around the world. With less than two weeks until the contracts for 150,000 GM, Ford and Stellantis workers expire, the fundamental issues in this historic battle are coming to the forefront. As the WSWS presciently warned at the time, the founding of Unifor was a "bureaucratic maneuver" aimed at suppressing the class struggle. A decade on, this warning has been more than confirmed. The event "An Island at the Centre of World History: Leon Trotsky on Prinkipo" on August 20 attracted a lot of interest and raised Trotsky as a living figure in the debates on history and politics in recent weeks. The fact that nobody has ever gone to prison for the CIA torture program implicates the entire US political establishment and exposes the hypocrisy of its claims to be defending human rights abroad. In a statement Wednesday, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss said they had endured a "living nightmare" and a "wave of hatred and threats" due to Giuliani's statements. Rubiales is being subjected to a ferocious witch-hunt by the media, in a campaign Spain's politicians are only too happy to see drown out the major political issues confronting the working class. The problems with RAAC have been known for years. A national audit was begun in 2018 after the roof of a primary school in Gravesend, Kent collapsed in 2018, destroying a classroom. That conditions across Syria are dire is indisputable, but primary responsibility for this rests with US imperialism and its European counterparts. By issuing "interim agreements," none of which were discussed or voted on by the membership prior to approval, the union is creating divisions and helping the companies and the AFL-CIO isolate the strike. At a union meeting held Thursday afternoon, striking workers were presented with a 100-page contract and told to vote on it by 3:00 p.m. Management is using new language buried in the local supplemental agreement, which was concealed from us by the Teamsters bureaucracy, to eliminate days off. With a new "evaluation period" beginning last week for tens of thousands of rural letter carriers, which is used to determine their pay for the next six months, even deeper cuts to their pay are on the horizon. The Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee is urging all academic and professional staff to vote "no" on the agreements, and to link up with their colleagues at the University of Melbourne, who held stoppages all last week to fight casualisation and pay-cutting. The closure of maternity services in private hospitals is deepening the already burdened and understaffed public healthcare system, leading to burn-out and resignations of experienced health care professionals. Only 26 percent of the district's teachers voted for the last-minute deal, pushed through at the start of the school year. "This generation of young people faces the threat of world war, the rise of fascism, the COVID pandemic, and the global climate crisis. It is imperative that students' capacity to address these questions not be arbitrarily limited in the name of administrative bookkeeping." Around 5,000 rallied outside the state parliament in Adelaide with multiple homemade banners expressing educators' determined opposition to the government's wage offer of a nominal wage rise of just 3 percent a year and rejection of any meaningful measures reducing excess workloads and abysmal conditions. Rescue efforts are continuing as the extent of the devastation from the massive Hurricane Idalia across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas is being revealed despite efforts by the corporate media and political establishment to cover it up. 70,000 South Korean school teachers to strike over dangerous working conditions; Indian sanitation workers protest in Delhi over work deaths; Australia: University academics strike in Victoria over wages and conditions. Despite alerting staff on the medical pod in which she was being held that she was experiencing contractions and needed to go to the hospital, jail staff kept the inmate in her cell intermittently checking her condition for an hour until she gave birth. Last Saturday's incident marks the second time this year a Texas National Guard member has fired upon a civilian while deployed under the auspices of Abbott's Operation Lone Star, and the third known time a soldier has fired their weapon while on duty at the border. Since the beginning of June 2023, China has experienced a significant outbreak of mpox, joining ranks with the rest of the world in the ongoing but rarely reported on mpox pandemic. The RMT has kept the issue separate from the ongoing dispute over pay, terms and conditions for 20,000 railway staff in England—itself suspended for the rest of the year after a strike on Saturday. 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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