 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Were Trump to make good on these trade war threats, it would roil the North American and world economy, to say nothing of dramatically intensifying US imperialism's strategic offensive against China, which threatens at any point to explode into all-out war. The US judicial and political system has proved itself completely incapable of defending the democratic rights of the population. The declaration of US-backed candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as "president-elect" of Venezuela by Secretary of State Antony Blinken paves the way for renewed sanctions and military operations to overthrow the Maduro administration. Minutes after President Biden announced a ceasefire in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, the Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed several dozen air strikes across southern Beirut and its suburbs, some that targeted residential buildings where displaced people were sheltering. The sanctions on the student for wearing a Keffiyeh to his graduation ceremony have involved the highest levels of the NSW Labor government. Kennedy's anti-vaccine agitation in Samoa's deadly 2019 measles epidemic is a warning of the global role he will play as Trump's head of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The developing avian influenza panzootic and the growing possibility of a pandemic bring to the fore the existential questions for humanity of climate change and the destruction of public health, both of which must be stopped in order to control the growing threats. The most reactionary response to such right-wing populist initiatives is to obscure the class lines. Ireland goes to the polls November 29 in an election dominated by the implications of Sinn Fein's collapsing support and shift to the right. Facebook's censorship of the "WSWS in Portuguese" page represents a dangerous precedent against socialist and independent political thinking throughout the world. A bitter debate is now unfolding inside the ruling class over how to recalibrate its policies, that will confront it, sooner rather than later, with explosive working class opposition. In a nakedly political decision, the Paris prosecutor's office called for a five year prison term and ban on electoral activity for neo-fascist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recently attacked the Bauhaus and its legacy in terms recalling the Nazis' blood and soil rhetoric. The incoming coalition in Thuringia, which includes the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), has agreed on a drastic austerity programme that goes hand in hand with a massive beefing up of the state's repressive apparatus and the adoption of the refugee policy of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Excluding the pandemic, the turnaround in the budget, from surplus to deficit, is set to be the largest single-year reversal on record. The Woolworths warehouse workers' strike raises decisive questions for the entire working class, not just in Australia but internationally. The meeting will discuss the urgent tasks that confronting the working class in the wake of the US and Sri Lankan elections and the socialist and internationalist strategy necessary to fight for the interests of working people. Through Task Force Ayungin, Washington is overseeing and directing Manila's escalating confrontations with China in the South China Sea. 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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