 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The challenges to Trump's ballot status form a patchwork of the 50 states that gives a glimpse of the dimensions of the political crisis ripping the US apart. As the onslaught on Gaza continues unabated, the Israel Defence Force has also expanded its attacks in southern Lebanon against Hizbollah. The far-right government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can only proceed with such aggression because it knows it enjoys the unconditional support of US imperialism and its European allies. Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old conscript to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), refused to serve and was sentenced to a 30-day prison term. The WikiLeaks publisher is perilously close to being extradited to the US, where he would face life imprisonment for exposing US-led war crimes, human rights abuses and diplomatic conspiracies. The new draft mobilization law is a tacit admission of the catastrophic state of the war. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Jerry White, the labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site and a leading member of the Trotskyist movement in the US and internationally for more than four decades. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Laura Tiernan, a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain and writer for the World Socialist Web Site. Art, directly or indirectly, has to respond to the most pressing demands of its time, or it will not endure or leave a deep mark on human consciousness. Workers' action committees in Sri Lanka have sent protest letters condemning the violent attack by Podujana Pragathishili Sevaka Sangamaya trade union officials on two Socialist Equality Party members. Britain's Stop the War Coalition and its political leader Jeremy Corbyn have sought to limit all protests to placing pressure on the Conservative government, and its de facto allies in the Labour Party, to shift from their naked support for Israel and instead demand a ceasefire. Cops in the United States have killed more people in 2023 than any other year in the past decade. New York City's Democratic Party establishment has begun to implement measures to cycle migrants out of city shelters and limit the times in which buses transporting them from the US-Mexico border can arrive in the city. It continues to house them in atrocious conditions. The science of genetics was critical to the release of Kathleen Folbigg, who spent nearly two decades in jail after being wrongly convicted of killing her four children. If rank-and-file workers do not organize to defeat this betrayal, public sector workers will suffer a further deterioration in their wages and working conditions, and the right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government will accelerate its privatization plans. While the Peronist union bureaucracy has been compelled to call for a national strike and mass demonstrations, it is merely seeking to channel opposition behind a defense of its own interests. In the aftermath of Hurricane Otis, Acapulco's prolonged suffering exposes the inability of the capitalist system to address the urgent needs of the population amid the escalating climate crisis. The move to downgrade the role of the PBoC reflects growing concerns in ruling circles about continued lower growth. Philippines: Jeepney drivers hold two-week national strike; India: Andhra Pradesh childcare workers still on strike for higher pay; Pakistan: National Foods workers in Karachi occupy factory; Australia: Royal Flying Doctor Service nurses reject latest pay offer The police-state measures against domestic opponents of Zionism confirm Britain's complicity with Israel's war of annihilation against the Palestinians. The RMT union has whittled down the action to a series of staggered stoppages, with combined strikes by all members across London Underground on only two days, January 8 and 10. 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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