 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933. A successful petition drive has placed Joseph Kishore and Jerry White on the November 5 ballot for president and vice president. The arrest of Durov comes as France and the major NATO powers escalate war with Russia and attacks on basic democratic rights, amid growing opposition to the war in Ukraine. Speaking in person at the meeting, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president Joseph Kishore defended Cornel West's right to appear on the ballot, despite the vast and unbridgeable political differences between the two campaigns. After defying a UAW-company sellout contract vote for an unprecedented fourth time, Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago are reaching a critical turning point in their fight. Nearly 150 people registered for Sunday's meeting, "For global action to defend jobs at Warren Truck and around the world," sponsored by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees. We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Carter. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has cravenly surrendered to the Trudeau Liberal government's strikebreaking, scuttling a militant struggle of 9,300 Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railway workers that threatened to paralyze much of the North American economy. Washington has no intention of allowing Beijing to extend its influence in the Middle East, or anywhere else in the world, and will not hesitate to use all the means at its disposal to prevent this—utilising support for Israel's annihilation of the Palestinians in Gaza as the basis for an expanding war for control of the region initially targeting Iran. As early as next month, the Pentagon is expected to take over several military factories in Argentina to produce artillery, munitions and other weapons for the US-NATO war in Ukraine against Russia. The Morenoites' central criticism of the US-backed Venezuelan fascists is that they don't pursue their coup plots aggressively enough. Labor's NDIS legislation will have a devastating impact on tens of thousands of people with disabilities, particularly children. Warnings are being sounded not least because the market turmoil in the first week of August was the most significant since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The defeat of the Alaska Airlines contract is a major rebuke to the Association of Flight Attendants apparatus, which had given its full backing to its supposedly "record" deal. Air Canada pilots voted 98 percent to authorize a strike against low pay and poor conditions while Sun Country flight attendants also approved a strike ballot. Netrebko's career has continued to flourish in Europe. Amazonian indigenous leaders in Peru have been assassinated by mafias associated with illegal mining, logging, and drug trafficking. Mail volumes are kept artificially low to justify unrealistic workloads. Umarani's conveyor-belt death at a state-owned milk factory on the outskirts of Chennai has once again highlighted the hazardous working conditions that prevail in both private and state-run factories. As campus reopens this week at UM, the position of the university is very clear: Those who protest genocide are criminals. By asking Macron to form a government, without mobilizing millions of workers who voted NFP in struggle against Macron, the NFP is setting a political trap for the working class. 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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