 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Israel's atrocities are being carried out with the full political and logistical support of the Biden administration and all the imperialist governments in Europe. The political purpose is to send a message: There are no limits. Colonialism is back. On Friday, the Israeli military carried out a barbaric airstrike on a convoy of ambulances that was headed from Gaza City to the border with Egypt and was carrying injured Palestinians seeking further medical treatment. An initial early morning protest at the Port of Oakland swelled to several hundred people by the afternoon, delaying the transit of a military logistics vessel for several hours. On November 2, Will Lehman, a rank-and-file socialist candidate for president of the UAW, issued this statement demanding the UAW cease production of equipment or munitions used by the Israeli military. Among postal workers, there is a sharp feeling that the massive growth of military conflict all over the world was connected with and paid for by worsening conditions for workers at home. Similar discussions would have taken place in the United States, Germany, France and in government circles around the world. In every country measures to contain the pandemic were opposed by a ruling class that priorities profits over lives. In this interview, Dr. Proal discusses her research into Long COVID, which has focused on the role of viral reservoirs, as well as the immense global impacts of this new chronic disease. Only Full Time Temporary (FTTs) workers at GM with at least 90 days seniority will be converted to regular status at ratification. This stark finding is only the latest in a series of statistics that confirm the social illnesses brought on by capitalism and rising inequality are taking a lethal toll on the working class in the US, including among those who have barely started their life. Sanders published an opinion article in the Guardian feigning concern over conditions in Gaza, while endorsing the entire political framework of US support for the illegal Israeli occupation. The eruption of imperialism is hampering the efforts by the Latin American ruling elites to even pretend to play an independent, progressive or democratic role. The antisemitic riot in Dagestan is a reactionary result of Israel's imperialist-backed genocide of the Palestinian people. Forging a path out of this bloody impasse means taking a determined stand against Netanyahu's fascist gang of warmongers and their efforts to whip up hatred of the Palestinians and making a class appeal, across the national divide, to win the entire working class—Jewish and Palestinian—to a unified socialist struggle against imperialism and its bourgeois agents within the Arab and Israeli elites. As SAG-AFTRA attempts to wrap up a corporate-friendly deal, militancy and determination of the rank and file continue to dominate the picket lines. The Master Executive Council, the FedEx branch of the Air Line Pilots Association, reported the replacement of Chris Norman, who was heavily involved in shaping the agreement which workers rejected for its substandard wage increases and poor job security. On October 28, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Michelle Donelan MP published an open letter to the CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) demanding action against academics. Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone. With its support for the indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians, Quebec Solidiare is signaling its alignment with Canadian imperialism, which fully supports Washington in its efforts to prepare and provoke a wider conflict in the Middle East. The court's twin decisions on November 1 show the continuing political threat to the right to citizenship, and all the basic social and democratic rights that are meant to go with it. Billions, possibly trillions, were lost in the fall in bond prices set off by US Treasury funding requirements as a result of rising budget deficits. Verdi and the employers are negotiating behind closed doors about how to implement the cuts in real wages provided for in the government's war budget. Bangladeshi apparel workers killed in brutal police attack; India: Sanitation workers still on strike in Gurugram city; Submarine manufacturing workers in Western Australia strike for pay rise 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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