 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The strike wave poses both the urgent need, as well as the possibility, of an independent class movement directed against the capitalist profit system as a whole. US and Israeli officials openly endorsed a large-scale attack on Iran Tuesday, following a strike by Iran on Israel with 185 ballistic missiles the same day. In an interview in Jacobin, DSA member Aidan J. Beatty repeated his slanderous biography's claim that Gerry Healy and the British Trotskyists employed violence against political opponents and party members. All workers must stand shoulder to shoulder with dockworkers and launch a joint struggle that unites all sections of the working class. On the first day of the walkout by 45,000 dockworkers, several spoke to WSWS reporters about the issues at stake in this struggle. The work stoppage coincides with and must link up with the ongoing strike by 45,000 dockworkers along the US East Coast, which has shuttered 36 ports between Maine and Houston, Texas, including five of the continent's 10 largest ports. Impact Plastics made employees come in to work on Friday morning despite the imminent threat of flooding from Helene and kept them there as the nearby Nolichuky River overflowed its banks and inundated the plant. Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: "I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism." The latest developments are highly concerning, as they raise the possibility that the H5N1 virus has evolved the ability to transmit from human-to-human and thus the potential to cause the next pandemic. A fire at a chemical factory broke out on Sunday morning and released a plume of chlorine gas and other toxic substances into the air east of Atlanta, causing mass shelter in place orders and the shutdown of county government offices through Friday. Under the headline, "Warnings as Doomsday Clock edges ever closer to midnight," Alan Dupont urged "national mobilisation on a scale we haven't seen since World War II." Favorable conditions are emerging for waging an all-out fight against job cuts, which the UAW apparatus is desperately seeking to hold back. On the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 student teachers enrolled in the Ayotzinapa Normal College in Guerrero State, more than 10,000 people marched in Mexico City. Throughout the university sector, managements have responded to Labor's "loopholes" legislation by preventing casuals from gaining any claim to permanency or ending their employment altogether. White's life story mirrors that of many of the more than 2,200 men and women still on death row in America, as well as those of the 1,600 individuals who have already been sent to their deaths since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. MSU in East Lansing recently canceled a campus event over a piece of art with a pro-Palestinian image. Between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024 a record 1,001,150 unique individuals visited a food bank to supplement their dietary shortfalls in the region that is the business and financial heart of the country. 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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