 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. In waging a systematic campaign to murder journalists in Gaza, Israel and the US government are setting a precedent for killing their political opponents. The impending layoff of up to 3,700 workers at Stellantis plants in Ohio and Michigan is part of a global assault on the jobs of autoworkers. Speaking at the site of a white supremacist mass murder in 2015, "Genocide Joe" Biden rejected protesters' demands for a ceasefire and instead appealed to well-off sections of the black bourgeoisie to try and salvage his sinking re-election campaign. A midair blowout of an unused cabin door on an Alaska Airlines flight on Friday has exposed the ongoing subordination of flight safety to the profit interests of Boeing and the airline corporations with the complicity of the FAA and NTSB. Utter silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, one of the great war crimes of our time, overshadowed and tainted the event. The decision of the Federal Supreme Court to order the repeat of the federal election in Berlin, despite blatant shortcomings in only a few constituencies, is a fundamental attack on democratic rights. The wider electorate are to be deprived of the opportunity to express opposition to the hated pro-war policy and the social devastation of the federal coalition government. Germany is currently fuelling the war in Ukraine and Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip with record levels of arms exports. For the past months, in the absence of any opposition by the trade unions, demonstrations and protests have been taking place across Britain aimed at preventing the exports of weaponry and weapon parts to Israel. Amid a new rise in COVID infections and hospitalisations driven by the JN.1 variant, the New Zealand government is ignoring experts calling for the reinstatement of public health measures. The October launch of the "Optimized Collections" initiative in Richmond has wreaked havoc on mail delivery during the holiday season. Some 900 educators and administrators at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies are on strike, while Culinary Workers Union Local 226 continues contract talks with 21 casino resorts ahead of 2024 Super Bowl. CEB workers need independent organisations and a socialist program to defeat Colombo's privatisation and job destruction policies. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Kate Randall, a member of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than 50 years. None of the issues which led to the strike vote has been resolved. This includes pay freezes for those near the top pay band, the axing of travel allowances for London Underground staff, and above all the gutting of tube workers' pensions. Postal workers made clear that the issues which "count" for them had been trampled underfoot by the CWU bureaucracy in foisting a sell-out agreement on them last July to bring an end to their year long fight. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Paul Sherman, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US. 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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