 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In bringing this contract to a vote, the IAM bureaucrats have declared they are not on the side of workers but of management, and behind them a government which does not want a strike at a major defense contractor. The UN rapporteur's report stands as an indictment not only of Israel but also of the imperialist powers, including the United States, UK, France, Germany and Canada, that have funded, armed and politically defended the genocide. Mélenchon's strategy of uniting with Macron in the name of blocking the rise of the far right proved disastrous for the working class, paving the way for the forming of a far right government. Top National Rally (RN) officials, who held back-channel talks with Macron, do not hide that they intend to dictate the policies of the incoming Macron-Barnier government. Of all the stage acts in the Democratic Party's 200-year-old playbill of political deception, perhaps the most hackneyed is the sleight of hand the party conducts at election time to paint its candidates as progressives, even as they move ever farther to the right. Officials in the DeSantis administration are spearheading efforts to invalidate signatures and drive the petition to overturn the six-week abortion ban off the ballot. The Socialist Equality Party opposes the direct and indirect support of Sri Lanka's ruling and opposition parties for the US-led imperialist war agenda and urges the working class to do the same. One worker wrote to the WSWS, "Union sold us out, promised to stand by us and took us to the bank instead," and commented, "I don't have faith in Boeing, IAM and president Jon Holden to bargain in good faith for members." The joint communiqué reveals the advanced preparations not just involving these two key American military allies, but throughout the Indo-Pacific, for a US-led war against China. The public statements were aimed at conditioning public opinion for Australia to play an even greater role in the US-led war drive against China. The working class is confronting a supposed "broad-based" government—a newly installed coalition of President William Ruto and his United Kenya Party and the main opposition party—that is committed to IMF austerity and enjoys the backing of the bureaucrats who run the Central Organization of Trade Unions. Major public universities have had their enrolment numbers slashed for 2025, particularly targeting those with the highest numbers of Chinese students. Sanitation workers are picketing in Anne Arundel County over working in hot weather, ill-equipped garbage trucks and with a lack of protective equipment. Argentine pilots walked off the job for nine hours on September 6 to protest stalled wage talks while 10,000 United Airlines maintenance workers in the US held pickets to demand better pay, safety standards. The museum has begun firing staff who wear Palestinian keffiyehs to work. The Standish, Michigan-based carnival firm, T.J. Schmidt & Company, settled with the US Labor Department and agreed to pay $72,253.85 in back wages and travel expenses it defrauded 32 temporary migrant workers in 2021. Amid the World Health Organization's declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, officials in Canada are hoping that existing therapies combined with targeted vaccination of at-risk populations can limit the spread of the disease. Royal Mail workers around the country have been taking up the statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee for its next Zoom meeting this coming Sunday: "A rank-and-file fightback strategy for Royal Mail workers." Lack of investment driven by the thirst for ever-increasing profits has led to a situation where the basic sanitation infrastructure introduced by the Victorians is at breaking point—which a Labour government will not reverse. 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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