 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The million-dollar payoff from Musk is an example of how billionaires are literally buying the US presidential election. Biden and European heads of state have confirmed their knowledge of plans for an Israeli strike that would unleash war with Iran, but refused to discuss them publicly. IAM officials have yet to release ballot totals at Textron, while simultaneously preparing to ram through a deal at Boeing in a snap vote this week. Deere is once again placing the burden of declining sales on workers by slashing jobs. As they stopped the truck, the dockers chanted slogans including, "Freedom for Palestine"; and "No land or water to the murderers of the world's people." On the container were sprayed the words: "Murderers, get out of the port". The coordinated crackdown on Samidoun by the Biden and Trudeau administations is a component of their effort to suppress opposition to the Gaza genocide and the wave of pro-Palestinian protests which has continued for more than a year. In a curtain raiser address in advance of the IMF-World Bank meeting this week the IMF chief drew attention to rising levels of government debt. The state of Alabama executed Derrick Dearman, 36, on Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility, despite his life-long severe mental illness. The bipartisan event, attended by billionaires, celebrities and politicians of both parties, underscored the fundamental class unity of both parties in waging war and attacking the working class at home. The swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki, the former interior minister who oversaw police killings of anti-austerity protesters, Gen-Z activists, and pastoralists in Northern Kenya signals the Kenyan ruling class's intent to intensify repression. As social and economic conditions decline and the danger of a US-instigated war against China looms, the Indonesian ruling class believes Prabowo is best equipped to suppress workers' growing anger. The CITU called off the strike without the rank and file having any say, and without achieving any of the workers' demands, including for company and state recognition of the newly-organized, CITU-affiliated Samsung India Workers Union. Party speakers explained that President Dissanayake has called the early parliamentary elections to consolidate his administration and deepen the IMF austerity measures initiated by the Wickremesinghe regime. Once SeeWalker's views on Gaza became more widely known, a process was set into motion, leading to the rapid capitulation of town officials and the victimization of the artist. The deal contains pathetic 1.3 percent annual wage increases, in addition to substandard cost of living adjustments, continued hyper-exploitation and surveillance, and the continuation of a vast restructuring program aimed at privatizing USPS. The "new" offer contains the same sub-inflationary 3.5 percent pay "rise" that workers decisively rejected in July, but the Health Services Union bureaucracy is promoting the deal as a win and pushing workers to accept it. The experienced paramedic provided testimony about the toll that the ongoing pandemic is taking on the public and about the eugenicist character of the ruling-class' abandonment of public health. This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago. New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution. Boluarte is a reviled figure whose 4 percent approval rating testifies to her lack of any mandate to rule. The report demonstrates the consequences of decades of attacks by the ruling class on the social conditions of 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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