 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The comments of Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveal the real policy of the auto bosses, the banks, and capitalist governments everywhere. No matter how Fain tries to spin it, the decision to keep workers making products for the companies is a betrayal of the will of the rank and file. On the eve of a strike deadline at auto plants across the US and Canada, the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter spoke to Luis, a General Motors assembly worker at the Silao Complex in central Mexico. The failure to maintain basic infrastructure and to prepare emergency response policies, flowing from the 2011 NATO war in Libya that plunged the country into an ongoing 12-year civil war, has exacted a horrific human cost. Sixteen people have been declared dead following the flash floods which hit Greece early last week. With a fifth of all arable land on the Thessaly plain under water, the economic devastation wrought counts in the billions of euros. The doubling of poverty is the direct result of a deal cut between President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans last year on a federal budget which protected massive military spending while slashing the limited social program expansions implemented at the outset of the pandemic. The footage reveals the officer mocking the deceased 23-year-old. "It's a regular person," he said. "Yeah, just write a check. $11,000. She was 26 anyway. She had limited value." The announcement Thursday by federal prosecutors that President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, would be charged with three felonies related to his 2018 gun purchase comes as far-right Republicans seek to advance an impeachment inquiry against the president and further domestic spending cuts ahead of a possible government shutdown at the end of the month. This statement of the Socialist Equality Group explains the socialist perspective needed to unite the working class against the agenda of war and austerity shared by Labour, National and all the parliamentary parties. Striking doctors outside Wellington Hospital told the WSWS they faced a growing crisis due to long waitlists caused by years of underfunding and understaffing, made worse by the pandemic. Among the "two options" that India's military and political leaders are publicly said to be considering is opening "a new theater of war for China" along the disputed and already highly militarized Indo-China border. According to reports, "at least 26" more councils could be in the same position, some "within months." Bradford, Devon, Guildford, Hastings, Kent and Southampton, with millions of people in these areas, have been identified as at risk. The death of a young train driver near Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia is already the ninth fatal accident this year, significantly more than in previous years. The rank-and-file Rail Action Committee is placing the issue of safety at the centre of its work. In her press conference, ECB president Christine Lagarde described the economy as slow and sluggish with estimates by officials putting growth at only 0.7 percent for 2023, 1.0 percent in 2024, rising to 1.5 percent in 2025. Clark County Education Association holds secret meetings to head off a strike, COVID surge, school closures, wildcat action, arbitration. Portugal hit by 24-hour national strike over pay and conditions in meat industry; national one-day surprise strike over pay and conditions by court clerks in France organised outside unions; Nigerian primary school teachers in Abuja begin indefinite strike over pay arrears, while police shoot at University of Lagos students protesting increase in fees To win the better staffing and nurse-to-patient ratios that they need, the nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital must resist the conspiracy of the federal mediator, the hospital administration and the United Steelworkers leadership. 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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