 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Macron is calling to slash pensions in France, massively increase military spending and intensify the NATO war on Russia, which threatens to escalate into a global, nuclear conflict. ExxonMobil and Chevron have reported record profits and at the same time implemented massive share buybacks to further enrich shareholders amid growing world poverty and hunger. The company's 2022 earnings report showed substantial sales increases and projected robust demand for 2023, despite growing economic headwinds. The strikes were called to coincide with the passage through Parliament by the Conservative government of new anti-strike legislation, representing the greatest threat to workers' democratic rights ever mounted. The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) strongly condemns the conviction of the antiwar and peace activist Heinrich Bücker and calls on workers and young people to take action against the scandalous verdict. On Monday, TikTok deleted a viral anti-war video by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) that had received over over 150,000 views. On Saturday, January 28, the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) held its fourth election rally in Berlin-Neukölln. Main candidate and SGP chairman Christoph Vandreier spoke on the 90th anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power and how the German government is marking this anniversary by sending tanks against Russia again. The SPD-led German government is aggressively stepping up its war policy. The SPD strategy paper "Social Democratic Responses to a World in Transition" asserts a leading role for Germany in Europe and the world. While family and friends reflected warmly and consciously on the life of Nichols, and all victims of police violence, Democratic Party politicians and operatives sowed racial divisions and sought to channel mass anger at unending police murder towards legislative "reform." The main concern of both capitalist parties is the impact of any breach in the debt ceiling on the stock markets and the financial interests of the billionaires. The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally denounces the state-led persecution of the Union of Left Forces - For a New Socialism party in Ukraine by the NATO-backed Zelensky-government. His de facto support for Netanyahu is bound up with the dependence of US imperialism on Israel as the guardian of its predatory interests in the resource-rich region and as its subcontractor in its covert war against Iran and its allies. The findings come as recent CDC sero-prevalence data indicate nearly 100 percent of American children have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Property developers are expecting billion-dollar profits from the New South Wales government privatisation and redevelopment of Waterloo public housing estate. The focus of the January 17 panel discussion at the former German-Russian Museum was Lasar Mojshes' wartime diary and the memories of his daughter Anna. The new wave of protests has terrified the Wickremesinghe regime, the opposition parliamentary parties and the trade unions. University workers and students across Australia face intensified pro-business restructuring and integration into war research, as well as deepening budget cuts. The ISO hails Ardern as an "inspirational" leader who deserves "solidarity" against "misogynist" attacks, while whitewashing her Labour government's assault on the working class and participation in imperialist wars. Ahmed White, of the University of Colorado Law School, is the author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. The president of the faculty union has opposed appealing to other workers, including teaching assistants, not to cross the strikers' picket lines, declaring "We are not hooligans." 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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