 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The forced resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on December 9 marks a new stage in a state-orchestrated campaign to attack basic democratic rights on campuses. As Israel continues its bombing, starvation and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza, hunger has reached epidemic proportions. More than 100 working people and students, including SEP members and supporters from Colombo and outstations, attended the meeting, with a strong delegation from Sri Lanka's war-torn north. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard given by Tomas Castanheira, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group of Brazil. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard given by Fred Mazelis at the memorial meeting on December 3. Fred was a founding member of the Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party, in 1966. Biobot Analytics released its weekly data on levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, which notes the surge is continuing across the US. Recent evidence indicates that the JN.1 subvariant is highly immune-evasive and resistant to the current COVID booster. Evidence heard from witnesses and testimony presented in written form has already confirmed Sunak as a political criminal, who was if anything even more vociferous than Johnson in opposing lockdowns and basic public safety policies. After reinstating the InfoWars publisher, Musk participated in a Twitter Space for over an hour with Jones, Republican politicians, and Trump coup co-conspirators, in which the main topic of discussion centered on a war against the "globalists." The event made clear that US imperialism is again planning to install fascistic regimes across Latin America to crush the revolutionary struggles of workers and align the region against its geopolitical rivals, with Argentina as a major hub for this conspiracy. The incidents involving Chinese and Philippine vessels on the weekend were far more an anti-China propaganda exercise than an attempt to resupply the World War II Philippine warship grounded on the Second Thomas Shoal. The immediate trigger for the protests was last month's extra-judicial killing of 24 year-old Balaach Mola Bakhsh by state security forces. The meeting adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a coordinating committee to fight for the formation of rank-and-file committees in every workplace to organize an all-out strike and broaden the struggle against austerity to workers across Canada, and internationally. Less than a month after burying a strike against 1,200 layoffs at three GM plants, the union bureaucracies are imposing a new layoff program. The agreement, billed by the Labor government and the Australian Education Union as the "last offer," includes a real wage cut and nothing to improve dire workloads. "I see international support for Israel as based on the economic benefit that they get—oil, other resources from the Middle East. I do support socialism and the working class to oppose those in power." Teachers across the United States have joined with millions of students, young people and workers throughout the world to protest and condemn the US-backed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli regime. Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil condemned the seven judges for unanimously ordering the release of nearly 150 immigration detainees who had been incarcerated illegally for years. More than two dozen tornadoes were reported to have touched down late Saturday across Tennessee, some reaching winds speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, and leaving a path of destruction and death in their wake. In another indication of expectations of a worsening economic outlook, rating agency Moody's last week cut its outlook for Chinese sovereign debt to negative. The highest representatives of the state, the established parties and the churches, as well as cultural figures, justified the genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza under the mendacious guise of the "fight against antisemitism." Marking the one-year anniversary of the congressional coup that brought Boluarte to power, thousands took to the streets of Peru to oppose attacks on democratic rights and demand the government's ouster. Some 200 people rallied and marched Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza and honor Dr. Refaat al-Ar'eer who was assassinated in a targeted airstrike last week. Last week, Spotify and Twilio announced mass layoffs of tech workers, escalating the attack on the working class as a whole. While close to 100,000 people participated in the national demonstration in London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, thousands across the country held local actions. World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to protestors in Leeds and Sheffield. The statues and friezes, which formed part of the Parthenon temple built in the fifth century BC, are known in the UK as the "Elgin marbles" because they were removed in the early 1800s by Lord Elgin, Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. 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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