 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Thursday, lawyers representing the government of South Africa gave an extraordinary presentation to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, arguing that Israel is guilty of perpetrating genocide in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The bombardment is an illegal act of war targeting an oppressed nation that had already been ravaged by a years-long onslaught by Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its allies. By signing up to the "final warning" issued by the US and 12 other countries to the Houthis, New Zealand is placing itself at the service of US imperialism for a wider regional war, ultimately targeting Iran. The intensity of the Zionist regime's bombardment has claimed the lives of Palestinians at a pace many times higher than NATO's war on Russia in Ukraine, the Syrian civil war, the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and wars in Sudan and Yemen. Public confidence in the government is already rock bottom. These is widespread anger over the exposure of claims that it received no warnings of Hamas's October 7 attack, the fact that military forces were stood down, and that the Israel Defense Forces helicopter and tank assault on Hamas fighters was responsible for killing hundreds of Israeli civilians and soldiers. While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports. Over the course of 2024, major corporations are seeking to use the latest advances in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to eliminate vast sections of the workforce. New technologies are being rolled out which can eliminate almost all of the work inside the warehouses. The jobs of nearly 200,000 part-timers at UPS are at risk. When an appeals court judge raised a hypothetical question about Trump's claims of presidential immunity, it set off a revealing discussion. The most vile and ancient antisemitic conspiracy theories have proliferated on the platform in the recent days, garnering millions of views. The fascist propaganda is being spread by neo-Nazis and white supremacists that were reinstated by Elon Musk after he purchased the social media company. Workers in several sectors of the federal public administration are already responding to the Lula government's austerity policy with strikes and walkouts. DSA alderpersons have either issued apologetics for the horrific conditions migrants are being held in or joined in reactionary racialist tirades. As details continue to emerge about the door plug failure on an Alaska Airlines flight last Friday, it is becoming increasingly clear that airline safety has been repeatedly subordinated to the profit interests of the $135 billion Boeing Company, with the assistance of the US political and regulatory establishment. The Australian Workers Union is seeking to preside over an orderly closure of the Kwinana refinery, presenting the closure as a foregone conclusion that cannot be opposed. As a whole, Scott's film leaves the viewer interested in history none the wiser for the experience. In this struggle, train drivers confront not only the management of national carrier Deutsche Bahn and the government, but the leadership of their own union who are doing everything to prevent an all-out strike. Helen Halyard, a leader of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, died suddenly on November 28 at the age of 73. Finnish workers continue struggle begun in September against austerity and attacks on right to strike involving tens of thousands despite union attempts to limit action; strikes and protests by Iranian workers over cost-of-living crisis continue into the New Year, with steel and oil workers striking over lack of employment rights; protests by Libyan oil workers and local residents at two oilfields shut down production to demand a hospital, jobs for youth and refinery to end petrol and gas shortage Britain is suffering another wave of COVID-19, fuelled by the recently identified JN.1 variant, as well as the winter season. The impact of COVID is compounded by the increased circulation of flu and other viruses. 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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