 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka's executive president is a major international event that warrants careful examination. Israel launched a massive strike on Lebanon Monday, killing 492 people, including 35 children, 58 women, and two medics in over a thousand separate airstrikes. Workers must be clear that far from opposing this corporate blackmail, the IAM bureaucrats are the company's accomplices in trying to divide workers and set the stage to defeat the strike. The new agreement was ratified only under duress, after the company shut off workers' health insurance last Tuesday. The latest research deals a fatal blow to the fascistic conspiracy theory claiming the virus was created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan. The program, which focuses on maintaining fiscal discipline to reduce inflation and close the budget deficit, shows that the attacks on the living and working conditions of the working class will continue and deepen. According to Ipsos, just 22 percent of people are "pleased" with Labour's performance. Fewer than half of Labour's voters are "pleased," and one fifth regret voting for the party. Louise Adler provided a powerful exposure of the myth that the Zionist regime in Israel represents the Jewish people, and of the slanders that any opposition to its fascistic crimes in Palestine and the Middle East is antisemitic. College administrators and wealthy regents, terrified of anti-war and anti-genocide protests, are expanding the repressive elements under their command. The governor of Missouri and state Supreme Court refused Monday to halt the execution of death row inmate Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams. Williams, 55, has spent almost a quarter-century on death row for a crime he did not commit. Maternal mortality rates have soared in Texas after the abortion ban went into effect. The Treaty Principles Bill advanced by the far-right ACT Party, part of New Zealand's coalition government, promotes the lie that indigenous Māori have received "privileged" treatment. Charlene Hudy, the chair of the Air Canada ALPA Master Executive Council, is facing strong rank-and-file opposition to a sellout deal negotiated by the union that ignores the demands of lower paid junior pilots. SAG-AFTRA has fully accepted the fact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will destroy thousands of jobs, and entire professions, and is simply looking for a face-saving way of ending the current strike. With the Bankstown line privatisation almost a foregone conclusion, the Rail, Tram and Bus Union has allowed the Labor government to buy its way out of industrial disruption for merely the price of a weekend's fares. The USW maintains we should leave the decisions to the courts where, apparently, major issues can be hashed out in an "independent legal forum." The decision in the Quoc Le case, which culminates a sad nearly 4-year saga, has blown this "theory" out of the water and exposed the consequences of the USW's efforts to subordinate our struggle to pro-employer state institutions. 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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