 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In the face of mass protests throughout the United States, the Biden administration has made clear it will continue its policy of arming, funding, and politically supporting the Gaza genocide and shielding its perpetrators. After speaking with Zelensky, Cameron told reporters, "But let's be absolutely clear, Russia has launched an attack into Ukraine and Ukraine absolutely has the right to strike back at Russia." Students, supported by many faculty and other opponents of Israel's Canadian government-backed genocidal assault on the Palestinians of Gaza, have set up encampments at universities in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. The ongoing exemptions granted to Kiev from following basic human and democratic rights are further proof that Ukraine is de facto a police state in which dissent is suppressed with dictatorial measures. The decision was first announced in President Petro's May Day speech, delivered Wednesday to tens of thousands of supporters in Bogota. The much-touted "firewall" against the extreme right, which has always been a fiction, is to definitively fall after the European elections. Mancilla, a former official from the Harvard grad student union, is attempting to get out in front of the anti-war sentiment. He played a leading role in passing a UAW ceasefire resolution in December. But that remained a dead letter, and the UAW endorsed Biden only weeks later, with Mancilla in attendance. The Osnabrück decree, which came into force on May 1, has one central goal: making Germany fit for war again, despite its crimes in two world wars, by preparing for war against Russia. Around 330,000 people took part in over 450 May Day demonstrations and rallies across Germany on Wednesday. It was clear that the top echelons of President Abdel Fattah's al-Sisi's brutal dictatorship were involved in a state abduction and murder. But the imperialist powers, including Britain where Regeni was studying, largely remained silent on his death. Private bond holders, with the IMF's tacit support, are seeking to bully the Sri Lankan government into accepting higher repayments or face the withholding of the next tranche of the IMF loan. "There's no doubt about the state of the world right now. It's so terrifying. That's why we're all here, to show that we're anti-war. With Russia and Ukraine too, there is just conflict everywhere at the moment. It has to stop." India: Tamil Nadu tea plantation workers demand on-time wage payments and improved social conditions; Australia: Child safety support workers strike in Tasmania; Federal court intervenes against striking Queensland's Cross River Rail construction workers Health workers in Victoria have rejected Labor's 3 percent nominal pay increase and voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action including work stoppages of up to four hours. The threat of a US- and Australian-instigated destabilisation campaign in Solomon Islands remains a very real one. The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan call on members of the Lecturers' Employee Organization to vote "No" on the sellout contract announced by the LEO leadership and organize a strike to halt the repression of peaceful student protests at U-M and nationwide against US/Israeli genocide in Gaza. Agent of Happiness is a documentary about the "Gross National Happiness" survey conducted in the small kingdom of Bhutan, situated between India and China. After nine months without a contract, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers announced a "historic" contract for teachers at the same time MPS officials have stated that they will need to cut $110 million, and that "everything is on the table." Retail workers should place no faith in the Verdi trade union, which has once again welcomed a supposed "saviour" for Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof and is actively assisting in imposing redundancies and closures. I have spent the majority of my working life working with people who have struggled with mental and physical health problems, who have had to depend on the benefits system to be able to live day to day. 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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