 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The fight against inflation, cuts in real wages and increasing workloads cannot be conducted under the leadership of the trade unions and is inextricably linked to the fight against war and military rearmament. On Monday, multiple media outlets reported that over 60 Republican National Committee staff members were fired by the recently installed Trump leadership team, which includes his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. Biden is relying on union bureaucrats, arch-sellouts like Shawn Fain, to suppress the class struggle as the US prepares for World War III. A Boeing 787-9 jet operated by a Chilean airline headed from Sydney to Auckland dropped suddenly midflight on Monday, causing passengers and crew members to be flung into the ceiling of the cabin and injuring 50 of the 272 people on board. The SEP is fighting to provide the working class with a political voice, in opposition to the pro-genocide, pro-war Labor government and political establishment. In an angry commentary in the Monday edition of the FAZ, foreign policy experts Anton Hofreiter (Greens) and Norbert Röttgen (Christian Democrats, CDU) called for a massive escalation of the NATO war against Russia in Ukraine. Revelations last week that guidance documents are in circulation under Prevent—the government's "radicalisation" surveillance scheme—identifying "socialism", "communism" and "anti-fascism" as gateways to terrorism provide a glimpse of the police-state measures in preparation. Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon complained that "action against antisemitism needs to come from within" and that, so far, university vice-chancellors have been merely reactive in their curbing of free speech instead of being proactive. The organization filed a complaint on behalf of the teachers, whose pro-Palestinian sympathies were maligned as antisemitic to justify their dismissal. The World Socialist Web Site spoke to James, a paraprofessional in the New York City public school system who has been witch-hunted for his pro-Palestinian views by Zionist forces, with the complicity of the school administration and the police. Second and concluding part of an interview with nurse victimized because of a patient death caused by faulty systems for distributing and administering potentially lethal drugs. The outbreak, so far concentrated in an overcrowded facility in which a five-year-old boy died in December, threatens to expand as city officials delay in publicizing the presence of the disease. To justify war in the Indo-Pacific region, both Washington and Seoul falsely claim they represent "democracy" and "rule of law" in order to demonize China. The deliberate and massive explosion and release of toxic chemicals into an Eastern Ohio community last year was not necessary, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board stated in testimony before Congress last week. At warehouses nationwide, shifts are being cut and entire facilities being replaced by new automated hubs requiring a fraction of the labor. One week after industrial explosions rocked the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township, Michigan, killing a young bystander and spewing steel gas canisters and shrapnel as far as two miles from the blast site, the police and local authorities have yet to initiate an investigation or lay any charges against the owners of the cannabis business that erupted in flames and multiple detonations. Contract talks between IATSE and the AMPTP have begun, while rank-and-file need to prepare opposition to a betrayal. 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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