 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The Gaza genocide, now six months old, marks a major milestone in the criminalization of imperialist foreign policy, in which systematic mass murder, starvation and genocide are being normalized as tools of statecraft. The Russian and French defense ministers, Sergei Shoigu and Sébastien Lecornu, spoke for an hour via phone on the Ukraine war and the March 22 terror attack in Moscow. A rank-and-file rebellion against not just management, but the union bureaucracy, is the only thing that can stop this. As long as the Teamsters sellout artists remain in charge, UPS will succeed in its drive to cut jobs. But if we break out of their control, and develop new, alternative structures, that will change the balance of power in our favor. The rules requires all locomotives to be operated by a two-person crew, but includes an extensive list of exceptions and loopholes that make the regulation toothless. This fire disaster is an indictment of the entire ruling elite, including business owners and officials. Efforts to rescue the miners trapped 410 feet underground came to a halt on Monday. Whatever their radical rhetoric, the principal concern of Socialist Alternative and Cornel West is to preempt a challenge to capitalism, US imperialism and one of its principal instruments of class rule and war—the Democratic Party—from the working class. The Democrats trail behind, declaring that "migrant crime" is a legitimate political concern. A World Weather Attribution study shows that climate change has sharply increased both the severity and frequency of extraordinary heat events in Africa's Guinea region. American imperialism, in league with its Canadian minion, seeks a fortress North America against China, and even Europe, in its march to war. Mexican President López Obrador is kowtowing to this agenda. After three days of negotiations behind closed doors, on March 27 the executive of Germany's Lufthansa Airways and the public service union Verdi announced a wage deal for ground staff. An internal company memo issued last year declared that the "globally accepted standard, that 'we don't work under unsupported ground," was "dated." The proposed cuts to Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools are set to eliminate hundreds of full-time positions across numerous departments, drastically reduce department budgets by up to 60 percent and impact afterschool programs. US District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sided with Graphic Packaging International and 21 government defendants and threw out the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Northside Kalamazoo residents, who were demanding compensation for damages from decades of toxic pollution in their neighborhood. National strike by Romanian workers called off after unions accept pay award around minimum wage; teachers in France in one-day national strike against streaming of classes and teacher shortages; three-week strike by doctors in Kenya over pay, conditions and staff shortages joined by clinicians 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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