 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Monday, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The strike must become the beginning of a broader action, including the entire membership of the United Auto Workers, against the war and in defense of the students. "With our brothers and sisters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), we are for abolishing, not reforming, the UAW bureaucracy, to put power into the hands of the workers." Left-wing websites, artists and workers endorse campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and his fight for the principles of socialist internationalism have struck a nerve among workers, intellectuals and youth throughout the world. The judgement is a victory, both for blocking what could otherwise have been Assange's immediate transfer to the America and for further exposing the reactionary nature of the US prosecution. Representative Elise Stefanik denounced any limitation on military aid to the Israeli war machine. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were among eight people killed in a Sunday afternoon helicopter crash in northwest Iran. The economic war is being falsely presented as a response to "unfair" Chinese state subsidies which are undercutting "market prices." The megastar is best understood not primarily as an artist, but as a creation of the music industry and a reflection of the present state of cultural decline. These laws are being invoked as a mechanism of repression against student protests opposing the genocidal policies being promoted by Biden and the White House. Australian hospitals and other medical facilities now determine their own COVID policy with only slight variations in their approaches to "preventing" infection with the deadly disease. The CWU is seeking worthless "assurances" from billionaire Daniel Kretinsky's private equity firm EP Group that the mail service and postal workers' jobs, conditions and pensions will be protected. "I feel we used to have one of the strongest unions, but now the union is sleeping in bed with management. It's awful. And there's no representation whatsoever." The real-wage slashing deal was voted down in a meeting of around 3,000 health workers, despite a concerted attempt by the union leadership to suppress criticism of the proposed enterprise agreement and fraudulently portray it as a win. The Colombo commemoration of Nakba, which refers to the original ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in what would become the state of Israel in 1948, was one of numerous events around the world last week. Post-budget polls point to primary voting support for the Labor government falling further below the near-record low vote of 32.5 percent at the May 2022 federal election. Teachers and health workers in Argentina's Misiones Province as well as teachers across Mexico have carried out strikes and protests over pay and the need for better funding. Workers at the first unionized Apple Store in the United States voted overwhelmingly to go on strike for better pay and work scheduling. The strike will take place at Genesys Hospital's main campus in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan as well as the nearby Genesys Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation department and the Genesys-Hurley Cancer Institute in Flint. On May 15 the German cabinet approved a draft bill for a so-called hospital "reform" put forward by the Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD). Staff at 23 Durham schools staged "walk-in" pickets last week demanding union recognition and improvements in pay. 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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