 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Just as genocide is being openly adopted as an instrument of policy and mass death has been normalized in the ruling class response to the pandemic, fascistic and authoritarian movements are again part of the mainstream political landscape throughout the world. The US carried out an illegal missile strike on Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday in the latest escalation of the US-Israeli rampage throughout the Middle East.. The assassination of the Hamas deputy leader in Beirut and the terrorist attacks in the Iranian city of Kerman prompted Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to warn NATO and other Israeli allies against the risk of a spreading war across the region. The New York Times and the Democratic Party are complicit in the far-right take-down of Harvard University President Claudine Gay. Fain is being honored for services he has rendered to the American ruling class and the Biden administration. Vice President Harris and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su were welcomed at the Culinary Union Headquarters this week to bolster the lackluster casino agreements and deflect from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Australian media studies teacher denounces Gaza genocide and escalating attacks on democratic rights "Millions of people are shocked by what they see going on day after day in Gaza, but they need to understand the whole brutal history of the oppression and dispossession of Palestinian people." – Australian media studies teacher An educator in New York City speaks about the Gaza genocide, the right-wing censorship by the city's Department of Education and the role of the working class in stopping the slaughter by the Zionist regime. Hundreds of demonstrators expressed outrage at Zionist barbarism and the Biden administration, chanting in both English and Arabic. Labour leader Starmer intends to continue a reactionary legacy, taking back the anti-migrant baton passed from Blair to the Conservatives. The German government is stepping up its attacks on the working class to finance its war budget for 2024. While workers are determined to fight privatisation, the Ceylon Electricity Board's trade union front is restricting them to futile campaigns, claiming this will pressure the Wickremesinghe government to change course. The New Zealand Herald is seeking to soften up the population to accept a major increase in military spending as the country is integrated into US war plans against China. One in 10 people in Toronto is now relying on food banks, twice as many as in 2022. "Some of us started wearing diapers to work, since our Postmaster has pointed out that there are no bathroom breaks listed in the contract," one worker wrote. "We are working an 18-hour non-stop shift, and we are being forced to choose between eating and going to the bathroom." The film does not make the point that immediately strikes any politically conscious viewer: such a serious investigation into an urgent social crisis could never happen today. National transport strike in Portugal over pay and conditions; strikes and protests continue in Iran against increasing poverty; bus workers in Johannesburg, South Africa in walk out over restructuring following takeover We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Liz Smith, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the UK. 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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