 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The New Year opens against the backdrop of a massive escalation of imperialist violence throughout the world. Genocide and nuclear war are being normalized. This brazen act of aggression increases the danger of an escalation of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza into a region-wide war, for which US imperialism and its European imperialist allies have long been preparing. The fingerprints of fascist forces, the state and the military are all over the conspiracy to bring down Gay. This letter opposing the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay was submitted to the WSWS by a Harvard employee. Millions of people around the world are taking to the streets to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the threat of world war. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, in close cooperation with its comrades in France, the UK, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, is participating in the European elections to give voice to this opposition and develop it into a powerful movement against the root cause of war, capitalism. Biden has reneged on his campaign promises to enact more "humane" immigration policies than his fascist predecessor and is now preparing to effectively abolish the right to asylum. The most urgent and relevant musical developments in 2023 took place not in recorded albums and songs, but rather on concert stages. Stephen Fry's "Alternative Christmas Message" of peace, goodwill and a blind eye to Israeli genocide The greatest crime in the world today is being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians, and Fry barely mentions it. Heavily armed law enforcement and military personnel, plainclothes officers, surveillance cameras and drones were activated and mobilized in cities across the globe in advance of New Year's Eve celebrations. Transport workers in Northern Ireland brought the entire public network in the six counties to a halt on four separate days in the run up to Christmas. UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and his Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey ended the year with a trip to NATO's Tapa base in Estonia. While it is not possible to prevent natural disasters, the damage that results is compounded by the subordination of public safety to the capitalist profit system. Protests against government austerity measures continued in Argentina while 800 nurses at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in California voted down an agreement brought back by the SEIU. The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities. "People are waking up to the inequity of capitalism, which is at the root of a lot of problems in the world." Having little faith that the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee would fight for real gains, Mount Sinai postdoctoral fellows ratified a substandard contract. Soaring rents and home mortgage repayments are producing homelessness on a scale described by charities as the worst on record. On January 7, 1999, the Senate trial to impeach US President Bill Clinton began in Washington D.C. The impeachment was the product of a right-wing campaign spearheaded by the Republican Party to remove a sitting president, shifting the entire political establishment to the right. We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Nancy Hanover, a writer and editor for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than four decades. This discovery significantly pushes back the known evidence of wooden architecture and the investment by humans in permanent structures suggesting relatively more settled occupation at certain locations. 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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