 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Much will transpire over the five months remaining until the November election. It is possible that neither Trump nor Biden will end up as the candidates of the two corporate-controlled parties. But one thing is certain, the political system as a whole will continue its lurch to the right. The decision to send riot cops to UCSC is meant to send a deliberate message to academic workers that neither the campus administration nor the White House and the two pro-war parties will yield in the slightest to popular pressure. Last week's crackdowns at University of California Santa Cruz and at Wayne State University in Detroit pose more sharply than ever the need for the working class to emerge as the center of the fight against war. US Democratic and Republican leaders invited Netanyahu to "share the Israeli government's vision for defending democracy, combatting terror and establishing peace." The resolution's proposer told WSWS: "It's shocking the type of warfare in Ukraine. It is like something from the First World War trenches, workers being slaughtered. Zelensky is driving a tank through hard-won workers' rights". Since the inquiry was announced seven years ago, the Socialist Equality Party has warned it was nothing more than a cover-up orchestrated to deflect blame from those responsible for 72 preventable deaths. Justice Samuel Alito rejected calls from Democrats that he recuse himself from pending cases before the Supreme Court following revelations that pro-Trump and fascist insurrection flags have been flown at his two residences. The execution proceeded despite questions about the reliability of the state's key witness, the troubled nature of Mills' childhood, a nonunanimous vote of the jury for a death sentence, and the thoroughly undemocratic character of Alabama's death penalty system. The deal amounts to a real wage cut and locks in conditions that are forcing teachers out of the profession, including large class sizes and intolerable workloads. "The situation on class sizes is terrible. In the last agreement the union accepted class sizes of 32. How are teachers meant to cope?" 2,500 junior doctors held a two-day strike this week as the New Zealand government delivered a brutal austerity budget. Major energy companies are merging as 2023 saw the greatest consolidation of the oil and gas industry in over a decade, with $243 billion spent on mergers and acquisitions. The nurses' union is openly seeking a rotten contract like the one that was imposed on the nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital after their long and courageous strike. The month-long strike at the AGO provides a case study regarding the extent to which the capitalist class will go to subordinate the livelihood of workers and all aspects of social life, including culture, to the insatiable needs of the profit system. The political crisis engulfing the country of Georgia continues, with the US and its European allies condemning the ruling party of the tiny South Caucasus nation as pro-Russian. South Korea: Samsung Electronics workers to hold first ever strike; Sri Lanka: 12,000 village level service officers still on strike; Western Australian public hospital workers and school special needs educators strike for higher wages; New Zealand Blood Service workers strike. 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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