 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. With no popular mandate, with no congressional or parliamentary authorization, without even an attempt at a serious explanation, the US and the UK have launched a new bloody military adventure in the Middle East. In their last major television appearances before the Iowa caucuses on January 15, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley sought to outflank one another from the right on the demonization and persecution of immigrants. Armed Texas National Guardsmen are physically blocking federal border police along a section of the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, in the latest challenge by the far-right Republican state government to the Biden administration and federal authorities. A poem by Mohammed al-Qudwa, currently trapped in Gaza, and read by Ali, has received more than 560,000 views as of this writing. In its actions, Canadian imperialism is no less complicit in Israel's genocide than its American ally, upon whose military might Ottawa has relied for over eight decades to assert its imperialist interests around the globe. Workers in the UK went to bed Thursday with the news having broken just a few hours earlier, around 7pm, that a cabinet meeting had been called to discuss military action in Yemen and woke to the news that airstrikes had been carried out around midnight. As with Britain and the US, the Labor government did not seek any mandate for its participation in the new war. It is not even revealing publicly what its participation consisted of. Even as it prepares to cut 10 percent of its global workforce, the bank is planing $500 million in share buybacks in 2024. In Madrid, the Hospital Universitario La Paz, which serves a population in excess of 500,000 people and is one of the largest in Spain by the number of beds, has been forced to suspend operations to make room for new patients. Milei has launched a series of decrees and an omnibus bill designed to benefit the parasitic ruling class while destroying the living standards and remaining democratic rights of the working class. The World Economic Forum annual report said "governance systems" were being "stretched beyond their limits" and "severe perceived risks" to economies and societies "will become harder to handle as global cooperation erodes." On January 8 the Culture Committee of the Berlin Senate agreed on the introduction of a clause that effectively abolishes artistic freedom. While PM Hasina claims this month's election will be "written in golden letters in the history of Bangladesh," the 41.8 percent voter turnout constitutes a majority rejection of her government. That a public sector payroll "glitch" could trigger a social explosion highlights the extreme social tensions wracking one of the world's most impoverished countries. Helen was a product of the party's fight for Trotskyism and against national opportunism—Stalinism, black nationalism, the labour and trade union apparatus and the various manifestations of Pabloite liquidationism—a conscious and fully committed fighter for the political independence of the working class. India: Childcare workers across India continue fight for a living wage; Bangladeshi garment workers protest for agreed pay rise; Sri Lankan health sector workers strike for "special" allowance; Australia: New South Wales power transmission workers strike for better pay 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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