 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Friday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Miley gave a briefing at Ramstein air force base in Germany, where they pledged the United States to the military defeat of Russia and the reconquest of all territory claimed by Ukraine. The tech cuts are only the beginning of a broader offensive against jobs by the entire capitalist elite, who are determined to use unemployment as a weapon against the rise of strike activity. Such tragic "accidents" can only happen in a society where conditions are ripe for tragedy. As it seeks to placate the military, the Lula government is using the coup threats to declare any infringement upon capitalist profit interests impossible. The fascistic coup attempt in Brasilia and the PT's craven response expose the bankruptcy of pseudo-left organizations like Spain's "left populist" Podemos party. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei is running in the Berlin elections to give a voice and a socialist perspective to the opposition to the hated policies of war and social devastation. The defence cooperation agreements, grant effective immunity to US troops active in the country, enable them to pre-position weaponry at forward bases, and are aimed at setting the stage for an opening of another front in the war with Russia. The film is a highly personal account of the postwar years in America that excludes nearly everything except the immediate family circumstances. Nurses and other National Health Service staff are fighting a government-imposed £1,400 pay award backdated to last April, worth on average just 4 percent—well below the RPI inflation at 14 percent. A nurse at Royal Bournemouth Hospital tells the WSWS why National Health Service (NHS) nurses held a second round of strike action across England on January 18/19. The first in-person gathering of world leaders and billionaires at Davos during the COVID-19 pandemic was remarkable for the comprehensive infection control measures taken to protect the super-rich from the virus. In Thailand, the true picture of daily COVID cases is masked behind a complete dismantling of testing and tracing. India's Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has responded with vitriol to a BBC documentary that examines prime minister Modi's role in facilitating and overseeing the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom. In the NSW election, working people confront a "choice" between an extreme right-wing Liberal premier and a Labor leader who agrees with him on all substantive issues. The government's new law has nothing to do with "rehabilitating" drug addicts but is to incarcerate workers, youth and political opponents, without any judicial determination, in military-run centres. The need for rank-and-file committees is underscored by the fact that the Pampas sell-out followed a blueprint the union has established in other significant disputes in recent years. A worker who filmed the incident said Chiewalthap Mariar was fired by his supervisor and then told to finish his shift by human resources. Workers were kept on the job by management after the shooting. The dean of the Harvard Kennedy School reversed his decision to deny a fellowship to Kenneth Roth on the grounds that his criticism of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians was "biased." The arrests indicate the significant level of support Trump's coup, and fascism, have within the US military. In Tennessee, a law passed last July makes sleeping in a tent on public property, under a bridge, or on an interstate exit a felony punishable by imprisonment, the first of its kind in the nation. After millions across France joined a one-day strike against Emmanuel Macron's pension reform on January 19, a confrontation is rapidly emerging between the government and the working class. The imprisonment of González has far-reaching implications for the ability of journalists to report on and criticise the actions of the imperialist powers globally, amid a concerted campaign to obscure and falsify the real origins of the war in Ukraine. China: Zybio medical supply factory workers protest terminations; Indian bank unions threaten two-day national strike; Indonesia: Nickel mine workers killed during protest. Lynch, hailed as a militant workers' leader by the media and pseudo-left groups, is working intimately with the rail employers and the government on a sell-out deal while rank-and-file workers have been kept in the dark. Calls are growing for a national shut down in opposition to Eskom's blackouts and electricity tariff hikes of 18.6 percent in April and another 12.7 percent next year. 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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