 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The report issued in advance of the conference in Davos details a series of deepening crises: the ever-worsening economic outlook, the intensification of geopolitical conflicts and tensions, the deterioration of health care, and the effects of climate change. The United States will "likely" announce that it is sending long-range missiles with a range of over 100 miles to Ukraine this week, US officials told Politico. According to Ukrainian officials, the helicopter was on its way to a "hot spot" on the frontline of the war. The government sees defeating the NHS workers, the largest contingent of the public sector workforce, as critical to enforcing its austerity programme. World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to National Health Service nurses on picket lines during the first day of a two-day strike on Wednesday. Tech giant Microsoft will lay off 5 percent of its global workforce in the latest job cut in the tech, banking and retail sectors. The ultra-right Republican representatives will be over-represented on committees whose main efforts will be to conduct investigations of the Biden administration. The IG Metall is not only conducting a struggle against wage increases. It is actively advocating and implementing wage cuts and cheap labour in an industry where workers were once among the best paid. Autoworkers have responded with anger over the effort to run roughshod over their democratic rights and install a president who has no legitimacy. The 22 percent reported "no" vote is only a fraction of the opposition among workers to the union-management deal. Molan, notorious for his role in the bloody 2004 sacking of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, was one of the country's most prominent war hawks. While Sherwin-Williams sits on massive amounts of profits and workers have been out on strike for two months, UAW officials invited businessman and House Democrat David Trone to the picket line in an effort to speed up "negotiations." Amid deepening class tensions, the Labour government is pushing ahead with reforms that give indigenous private businesses significantly increased economic and political power. The singer–songwriter's sophomore album is a big hit, but what message does it have for us? Having presided over a long list of rotten deals against drivers, General Secretary Sharon Graham and other lead officials seized on the Abellio dispute to try to revive Unite's tattered reputation On Tuesday, several hundred employees of the Berlin city sanitation department gathered to hand over a petition containing their pay demands to the management. Ulrich Rippert, a candidate of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) for the Berlin House of Representatives state election, attended the rally and discussed with the workers. 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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