 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The meetings were well attended, testifying to a growing interest in a socialist and revolutionary perspective. "What struck me was the emphasis on the urgency to pave a new way forward for the working class because the alternative is catastrophe." The corporate media, dominated by billionaires and giant corporations like Disney, the owner of ABC, is dropping any pretense of a critical, let alone adversarial, relationship to the incoming administration. Over 45,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its war of extermination in October 2023, Gaza's Health Ministry said Monday. Postal workers must defy this anti-democratic edict, but this requires the mobilization of the broadest sections of the working class—public and private sector alike—across Canada and internationally. The CWU bureaucracy blazed the trail for the takeover by colluding in dismantling the mail service under the guise of Universal Service Obligation "reform". This emergency resolution was passed unanimously by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29 – December 2, 2024. We are publishing the speech delivered by Tom Scripps introducing the resolution "Free Bogdan Syrotiuk" passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK). The early election does not serve to let voters decide on the big issues of the future, but to bring a government into power that is stable enough to enforce highly unpopular measures—social cuts, mass layoffs, lower wages and longer working hours, the deportation of migrants, more rearmament and a further escalation of war. No sooner had the Islamist militias reached Damascus and overthrown the Assad regime than the propaganda barrage against Syrian refugees began. The report of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic embraces the baseless campaign fomented by the fascist right blaming a Chinese lab for starting the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden administration's response to the spread of the bird flu among dairy cattle across the US over the past year amounts to nothing short of criminal negligence. The 250 striking workers were given just 48-hours notice to vote on a lengthy seven-year contract that failed to meet their key demands. The alleged killer's case paints a chilling portrait of a deeply pessimistic and fascistic worldview. Demands are emerging for a historic, all-out assault on the jobs, social services and living conditions of workers along the lines of that being mounted by Argentine President Milei and planned by US President-elect Trump. The "Olympic wage" is a measure targeting hospitality and service workers in the lead-up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. These events have transformed from international sporting events into platforms for large-scale profiteering, corruption and exploitation. The JVP, a petty bourgeois organisation based on a mixture of Maoism, Castroism and Sinhala populism, jettisoned its pro-Chinese and anti-US rhetoric long ago. For workers, this payout represents an infinitesimal fraction of the wealth they generate and will not change unbearable living conditions. The overwhelming strike votes at three facilities demonstrate the widespread opposition to Amazon's notorious regime of brutal exploitation and dangerous working conditions. Boluarte skipped a meeting in Ayacucho in South Central Peru in the face of protests, while 483 city workers in Duluth Minnesota have voted to authorize a strike. 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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