 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Emergency meetings should be called at locals, resolutions passed in favour of an industry-wide walkout, and preparations made for broadening the strike in the US and launching one at all Detroit Three operations in Canada. Amid a deepening military crisis triggered by the collapse of Ukraine's spring offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spent hours Thursday meeting behind closed doors at the Pentagon, as well as with US President Joe Biden, top Cabinet officials, the US Senate, and leading House lawmakers. Workers at the Warren Truck plant back call for immediate membership meetings to demand an all-out strike by 146,000 GM, Ford and Stellantis workers. Once again, rank-and-file workers at the GM Silao plant are organizing to oppose the company's efforts to shift production to Mexico if workers strike the GM plants in the US. The secrecy with which Unifor is operating in relation to the rank and file membership is the surest sign that a sellout is in the offing. Autoworkers must take action now to mobilize to defeat the tentative agreement with a powerful "No" vote this weekend. The following lecture was delivered by Eric London, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said that the White House will reinstitute the policy of sending Americans free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests. The US Supreme Court allowed the execution of Anthony Sanchez to proceed despite numerous evidentiary inconsistencies in the case against him, including questionable DNA evidence and the possibility that his father had committed the murder. It is unthinkable that Trudeau would have made such a charge without Canada's security agencies having incontrovertible evidence of Indian government involvement in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an outspoken proponent of an independent Sikh state. On Monday, the online edition of the Berliner Zeitung, one of the most popular media outlets in the German capital, prominently reported on the student protest and the "sharp criticism of the president and professors of Berlin's Humboldt University" made by the IYSSE due to the "exhibition of grisly photos at HU." The new starting pay at nonunion Amazon almost closes the gap with the new starting pay at UPS, further exposing last month's Teamsters contract there as a sellout. The unanimous decision by rank-and-file health workers is a powerful lead to all those seeking a socialist alternative to the racialist policies of the Yes and No camps and their pro-capitalist agendas of austerity and war. The Awanui laboratory workers have joined a series of strikes by healthcare workers, who confront a worsening staffing crisis and soaring living costs. A UK-based steel industry is central to the geo-political designs of British imperialism, which is heavily involved in supplying the NATO war against Russia in Ukraine and preparing a rapid expansion of its own military to participate in the escalating conflicts with Russia and China. One-day national stoppage by public sector workers in Greece against anti-labour law criminalising picketing and removing limits to working hours; teachers in Portugal hold week-long strike over pay, contracts and for more staff; Iranian regime introduces draconian legislation as protests and strikes mark anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of morality police; teachers in Plateau State Nigeria plan walkout over salary arrears but union have not set date 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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