 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The bitter conflict within the state apparatus is not a battle between "left" and "right." All factions of the ruling class are pursuing an absolutely reactionary agenda. The strike opens up another front of the class struggle in the US and internationally. Reporters from the WSWS spoke to many Kaiser workers on the first day of the largest healthcare strike in US history. The UAW is floating the possibility that it may not call any additional plants out on strike Friday, as it continues to keep 83 percent of its members at the Big Three working without a contract. The tentative contract includes below inflation raises averaging roughly 4 percent a year, has no COLA clause and leaves untouched the hated tier system. The US daily Politico, which is fully owned by Axel Springer Verlag, has published an article justifying Yaroslav Hunka's membership in the Waffen-SS with lies and falsifications of history. Reneging on campaign promises to cease construction of Trump's border wall, on Wednesday, Biden's Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the "immediate" construction of dozens of miles of "roads, barriers, cameras and sensors" through a wildlife refuge in south Texas. Michael Zack's execution took place after the US Supreme Court denied his appeal for a stay based on his intellectual disability from fetal alcohol syndrome. He was the sixth person put to death in Florida so far this year after Governor Ron DeSantis resumed signing death warrants. The yes and no camps are both promising to slash federal spending on indigenous programs, underscoring the fraud of the entire referendum. Liquidation can set in motion a desperate scramble by creditors to grab what they can leading to unforeseen consequences for the financial system. More than one thousand Blue Cross Blue Shield workers in Michigan, members of the UAW, have been walking the picket lines for three weeks while union officials have refused to provide updates on what is being discussed in negotiations. A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of anhydrous ammonia crashed and spilled its contents while traveling on US Highway 40 in southern Illinois, killing 5 and forcing the evacuation of 500. The campaign against the film is not restricted to the far-right Polish ruling party. Tomasz Siemoniak, defence minister under Donald Tusk (Civic Platform, PO) until 2015, also mocked the film in a TV interview, comparing its veracity to Star Wars. The ombusdman's report follows the certification in January of a class-action lawsuit by a provincial court judge against the Ontario government charging that the province was "grossly negligent" both before and during the early stages of the pandemic in failing to prevent waves of long-term care deaths. Nearly two months after the fire anger is boiling over as the displaced residents of Lahaina languish waiting for assistance. The dismissal of CWE workers poses the critical political issues before the entire working class: the fight to defend basic social rights is a fight against the Wickremesinghe government. All the major parties have conspired to strengthen the most right-wing political forces in order to intimidate any political opposition to wage and social cuts, war, and rearmament. Threats to use the Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Act were ramped up during this week's annual conference of the Conservative Party. 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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