The witch-hunt against Anthony Fauci and the war on public health

Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The witch-hunt against Anthony Fauci and the war on public health Senate Republicans’ show trial of Fauci marks a qualitative escalation of the offensive against medical research and public health that has been prosecuted under both big business parties. Read more Ukraine’s attack on Iranian ship exposes global character of imperialist war Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the same global imperialist onslaught that includes the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran. Read more ICE detains travelers at US airports in expanding police state dragnet Masked federal agents are seizing immigrants with work authorization and pending legal claims, frequently without producing warrants, before imprisoning them in an increasingly deadly network of private concentration camps. Read more Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes A week apart, a journalist who reported on shipments of cocaine from Ecuador aboard merchant ships owned by the oligarchic family in power and a prosecutor probing US bombing of fishing boats accused were both found murdered. Read more Public defenders strike in New York City and Detroit; Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, calls for unified walkout More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and crushing caseloads. Read more Canadian workers defend Will Lehman in face of death threat from top UAW official Will Lehman, a candidate for the presidency of the United Auto Workers in the ongoing election, was sent a death threat by a top union official and close ally of current President Shawn Fain. Workers across Canada have responded angrily to Jensen’s thuggish behaviour and sent statements of solidarity to the WSWS. Read more Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States Across both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll. Read more Burnham’s business secretary reassures Financial Times of Labour’s pro-market bona fides Jonathan Reynolds reassured the FT that Burnham's talk of facilitating “public control” over critical sectors of the economy was an appeal for collaboration with private investors not an attempt to control or replace them. Read more Greens-led Haringey Council backs KPMG auditors’ demands for savage cuts The Greens have prostrated themselves before KPMG, pledging a three-year “Financial Resilience Plan” that will slash spending on key service areas including housing and adult social care “where spending is high” and which offer “the greatest opportunity” to deliver savings “through cost reductions or increased income”. Read more New York Times publishes friendly interview with Mamdani There is growing disgust with capitalism and increasing interest in a socialist alternative, seen in the fact that millions are voting for candidates who call themselves socialist. The role of the DSA is to channel this political radicalization behind the Democrats in order to block the development of an independent movement of the working class. Read more Split at the Fed as it keeps interest rate on hold Bond markets signal that inflation is set to rise over coming months and maybe even years. Read more Australia: Union-management sellout agreement passed at University of Newcastle This outcome, after three limited strikes and 15 months of closed-door negotiations, is a warning of the retrograde enterprise agreements that the trade unions are trying to impose at public universities across the country. Read more Roger Waters reimagines the Pink Floyd classic “Comfortably Numb” as appeal for Palestinian rights Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona Miari. Read more Bolivia’s President Paz imposes starvation regime According to the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, 52 percent of Bolivians suffer from food insecurity, and anemia afflicts 53.7 percent of young children. Read more As ASEAN meets, manufactured confrontations in the South China Sea The clashes in the South China Sea during last week’s ASEAN summit in Manila expose the deliberate manufacturing of conflict with China by the Philippine state, acting on behalf of a US drive to militarize Southeast Asia. Read more Sri Lankan fake lefts defend government over killing of Negombo prisoners The fake left have chimed in, not to denounce the government and prison authorities for their brutality, but to join the chorus calling for prison reform and how to run the jails more efficiently. Read more Teamsters proclaim “victory” at United Airlines while withholding contract from 11,000 mechanics More than a week after declaring an "industry-leading" agreement, the Teamsters have still not released a term sheet, wage schedule or contract language to United mechanics. 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