 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12. Henry's swift dismissal as Haiti's head of government proves yet again that Washington views Haiti's political leaders, whether elected or unelected, as valets to be dismissed at its convenience, and treats the impoverished Haitian people with criminal indifference and hostility. The US Defense Department will send another $300 million in weapons to Ukraine, amid growing warning signs that the US-NATO war with Russia is on the verge of a significant escalation. Gallant and Netanyahu's comments lay bare the reality hidden behind a veil of hollow "cautions" and "warnings" from Israel's imperialist patrons. While shedding crocodile tears over mass civilian deaths, Australia continues to march in lockstep with the Biden administration that is funding and overseeing the genocide. The fact that the SGP has reached and surpassed the required support signatures is an important step. Now the party will be gearing up its election campaign to conduct a Europe-wide and international offensive for Trotskyism. Classes in Flint were cancelled Wednesday after 119 teachers called in sick after their contract, which included the first pay raises in years, was unilaterally abrogated. The strike vote at Daimler Truck marks the beginning of the first major battle by a section of autoworkers in 2024 and the first since the UAW's so-called "stand-up strikes" at the Big Three automakers last year. Scheduled to address the March 15 protest by Long COVID patients at the Lincoln Memorial, Julie Lam speaks with the WSWS. The National Football League refused to postpone a playoff game despite the dire risk to the health of the fans attending. The US House of Representatives passed a bill banning the short-form video-sharing app TikTok on Wednesday, with Democrats and Republicans coming together in support of a law to promote anti-Chinese propaganda and attacks on First Amendment rights. Fearing that the much vaunted "resilience and stability" of the banking and financial system could be undermined at any point regulators are working to put in place measures to prevent such an occurrence. The meeting with Biden came as the Teamsters made numerous mutual shows of support with Josh Hawley, one of the main co-conspirators in the Senate on January 6. Discussions between HTUA bureaucrats and health ministry officials have been held behind closed doors, ensuring that the more than 100,000 members of the alliance know nothing about on the proposals under discussion. The union bureaucracy has accepted the closure of Newshub, which will destroy about 300 jobs, and will assist in imposing more job cuts at the state broadcaster TVNZ. A strike by East Coast dockworkers would have a tremendous impact, not only on the United States, but the entire globe. In the midst of a new wave of the pandemic in Brazil, the WSWS spoke to four anti-COVID activists who have been denouncing on social media a number of aspects of the Workers Party government's criminal negligence in response to the pandemic. The Nellie massacre—in which India's now governing party, the Hindu supremacist BJP, played a major role—was the outcome of a campaign of communal incitement targeting "illegal foreigners," that is highly impoverished refugees and migrants from Bangladesh. The Workers Revolutionary Party, as the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, was the only political tendency which could have provided a lead, but unbeknownst to me it had undergone a political degeneration and a turn away from its Trotskyist principles. 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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