 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci gave an interview to the BBC in which he declared that older people, the ill, and disabled people "will fall by the wayside" in the current surge of COVID-19. The fast-moving fire that began at 1:00 a.m. on Thursday engulfed the five-story apartment building in Johannesburg, killing at least 74 people and injuring dozens of others. On top of the flooding and fires, Chile confronts a water crisis that is due not only to protracted drought, but also to the wholesale privatization of the nation's water supplies, 80 percent of which are controlled by corporate interests. Begley's death is a bitter milestone, the first of many UPS drivers to die of preventable heat exhaustion under the new contract which will continue to leave most drivers without air conditioning. On Wednesday, a month after a military coup in Niger, the military ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon, an oil-rich former French colony in central Africa. The Stalinist parties are among the most enthusiastic members of the opposition alliance and fully support its aim—providing the Indian bourgeoisie with an alternate, right-wing government-in-waiting. Determined to prevent any confrontation with the government, the unions limited the event to a lunchbreak protest, making it impossible for workers from outside Colombo participating. The Supreme Court justice has been unabashed in defending his close ties to a group of ultra-right billionaires. On Wednesday, the real estate developer Country Gardens, until recently held up as a model of financial stability, announced that it had made a record loss of 48.9 billion renminbi, the equivalent of $6.7 billion for the first half of a year. The exercises were openly framed as a response to US-stoked tensions between the Philippines and China over disputed waters in the South China Sea. Around 70 railway workers, other transit workers and supporters participated in the meeting and agreed a resolution, which states "The fight at Deutsche Bahn has only just begun". Occupational and physical therapists who work for New York City's public schools voted to accept a concessions contract after voting against it in June. The re-vote was forced by the United Federation of Teachers which was determined to implement the austerity measures of the right-wing Democratic Administration of Mayor Eric Adams. The most successful moments of the Sydney Theatre Company production were those that unflinchingly dramatised the existential crisis facing humanity. As new school year begins, teachers plan strikes over cost of living and education budget crisis across Europe; nurses protest pay, workload and redundancies and the disabled protest cost of living crisis in Iran; South African municipal workers in City of Tshwane continue pay strike despite union calls to return to work and state intimidation 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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