 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Two years after former president Trump and his Republican alliestried to overturn the Constitution, the aspiring dictator and the social and political forces that supported him remain free, and are openly plotting their next coup. This year, at least 1.6 million workers in the United States have contracts due to expire, including workers in key industries. The United States, France, and Germany have announced that they will send over a hundred tanks and other armored, tracked vehicles to Ukraine, massively escalating NATO's proxy war with Russia. Christian Gerlach, who has done pioneering research into the Nazi war against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust, spoke to the WSWS about his work. Boosting Australia's military capacities is a key component of the US-led military build-up throughout the Indo-Pacific to prepare for an aggressive war against China. Semiconductors are as essential to modern militaries as they are to every other part of the economy. Nowak's appeal is for the Tories to reinstate the role of the union bureaucracy in suppressing the working class through a tripartite arrangement with employers and the government. A front-page report in the Times—published the day the statement was released in clear coordination with the government, said, "Employers would be able to sue unions, and union members who were told to work under the minimum service requirement but refused to do so could be dismissed." The Department of Homeland Security will begin pushing back into Mexico tens of thousands of refugees seeking asylum from four countries. It will also reject automatically any asylum claim filed by all other refugees traveling through Mexico, adopting the "transit ban" established under Trump. The surge of desperate migrants arrives as the Biden administration moves to tighten anti-migrant policies. The SEP urges Pampas workers to break the union's conspiracy of silence surrounding the agreement and form an independent rank-and-file committee to determine their demands and prepare a plan to fight for them. The HWAC is calling on health employees to fight for the mobilisation of workers to defeat the government's paying ward plan, which is aimed at wiping out Sri Lanka's public health system, a fundamental gain won by the working class. Once again, the Federal Open Market Committee, the key policy-making body, underscored that for all the talk in public about the need to bring down inflation, the discussion behind closed doors is about blocking a wages upsurge in the working class. In the face of 7 percent inflation, and with the immune-evasive new XBB.1.5 variant now spreading throughout the country, the resumption of water shutoffs will be a social and health disaster for Detroit's working class. The ratification follows the shutdown of a nearly four-week strike in which the union leadership ordered part-time faculty back to work weeks before a finalized tentative agreement was arrived at. Racing to prevent a strike, union officials are using a tentative agreement with New York-Presbyterian Hospital that would amount to a cut in real wages as a template in negotiations with other hospitals. There is a real and growing danger that the US-NATO drive to militarily defeat and subjugate Russia will help trigger a major Mideast war, or the expansion of the current war to the Middle East. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced on Wednesday that 18,000 jobs would be eliminated at the global tech company and that employees would learn of the layoffs starting on January 18. The new year has begun in Germany with a vicious racist campaign for a police state. The events of the "Berlin New Year's Eve" are serving as a pretext, with the political and media establishment claiming that unprecedented violence was directed against the security forces. On Monday, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) broadcast its launch event for the 2023 Berlin state elections. In it, leading members of the party explained the SGP's principles, socialist program and historical foundations. Airline and airport workers in Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal hold strikes throughout the Christmas period over pay and conditions; French GPs organised in Facebook group outside the unions extend indefinite strike for more health funding; New Year begins with week of strikes by UK rail workers over jobs, pay and conditions, but unions keep drivers' and conductors' disputes separate; protests in Iran continue over death of Mahsa Amini, joined by protests and strikes against cost of living crisis 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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