 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Before the eyes of the whole world, Israel is carrying out a crime of monumental proportions: a deliberate and systematic massacre of the women and children of Gaza. The financial emergency comes after the dismal failure of the Ukrainian military offensive against Russian defenses in the south. Two months ago, Texas Republicans were photographed meeting with neo-Nazi Nicholas J. Fuentes at a far-right consulting firm in Fort Worth. The SEP calls upon workers, youth and students in Sri Lanka and internationally to defend our party's democratic right to freely engage in its political activities. In a direct assault on freedom of speech, the San Diego County District Attorney's office claimed they were investigating if the cartoon could be deemed a hate crime. After striking Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan workers have been kept in the dark for three months, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy is seeking to push through a proposed four-year agreement at ratification meetings on Tuesday. The statement released by top US, British and Australian defence officials makes clear that preparations for providing Australia with a nuclear submarine fleet are proceeding apace. According to the Education Support charity's 2023 index, educator wellbeing has reached its lowest level in five years, with stress, insomnia and burnout all continuing to rise and working in schools described as "unsustainably demanding". Over the past three years, Unite union leader Graham's "leverage" strategy in dozens of pay disputes has been directed to corporate boardrooms and shareholders. With the explosion of workers' struggles on an international scale, conditions are even more favorable for the development of a mass movement against austerity and war. But as in 2015, the unions are determined to prevent a working-class challenge to the capitalist elite's class-war agenda and to isolate Quebec public sector workers from their class brothers and sisters in the rest of Canada. To ensure that their returns continue to rise, shareholders are now unequivocally demanding that the 800,000 or so workers employed by manufacturers and their suppliers must take a beating. American Airlines flight attendants voted 99.5 percent in favor of a strike, but the National Mediation Board refused to release them from legally-mandated negotiations. Having isolated more than 1,700 nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for four months without strike pay, the United Steelworkers is preparing to sell them short with an inadequate agreement. The rapid development of ports, such as the one in Savannah, is aimed at providing shippers with increased flexibility, eliminating supply chain bottlenecks and positioning them to deal with work stoppages. It is also a major part of the Biden administration's drive to World War III. In partnership with the Liberal-National Coalition, the Labor government rammed the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Repudiation) Bill 2023 through the House of Representatives in a single day last week and is demanding that the Senate rubberstamp it by this Thursday. "What is so good about our 'democracy' when it is supporting genocide and failing the people here as well." The Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee, which is affiliated with the United Auto Workers, has kept the workers separated from other postdocs in the same local and is preparing a betrayal. Saõ Paulo transit carried out a one-day strike November 28 against privatizations and budget cuts while 1,600 MGM Grand Detroit Casino workers are back on the job after being saddled with a totally inadequate 64-month agreement. This significant cultural event highlighted films that take a sharp look at postwar American life. 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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