 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X, is leveraging his staggering fortune to finance and promote fascist forces throughout the world. The stripped-down measure will fund the government through March 14, but it does not include a suspension or rise in the debt ceiling. Two days before the Georgia Court of Appeals removed prosecutor Fani Willis from the election interference case, Trump-supporting Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk released an "interim report" on the events of January 6, 2021, that recommended criminal prosecution of Liz Cheney. Israel Defense Forces launched multiple air strikes against residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Friday. An UNRWA representative said, "An entire society here is now a graveyard." Health workers fear a fifth of the population may be dead, but the French president arrogantly told angry crowds that if France did not rule Mayotte, it would be "10,000 times" worse. According to media reports, the collective bargaining parties "wrestled" for more than 70 hours over five days to reach an agreement. In fact, the whole thing was a set-up. On December 4, Germany's Federal Cabinet decided on the National Security and Defense Strategy (SVI Strategy) to upgrade Germany and make it "war-ready" again after two lost world wars. More than 5,500 workers at Amazon's JFK8 facility, alongside thousands of other workers, are fighting for their economic needs and fundamental rights. Communication Workers Union bureaucrats will join a new Advisory Committee "composed of representatives of EP Group and the CWU" that will be "contractually anchored within the amended Articles of Association of Royal Mail", creating what amounts to Bidco-CWU Incorporated. Workers are up against a Labor government that is utterly hostile to their demand for a real pay rise and intends to use every mechanism at its disposal to eliminate their democratic rights and shut down their struggle. We are publishing the speech introducing the resolution "War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party" at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) given by Tom Scripps, its Assistant National Secretary. The resolution was passed unanimously. Scripps was re-elected to his position by the Congress. The impact of growing inequality can be observed in various aspects of daily life. The number of homeless people is rising, and tent encampments are an increasingly common sight in Canadian cities. Nearly 23 percent of the population reported some type of food insecurity in 2022. Turkish police detained the leader and many members of the Socialist Laborers Party, which identifies itself as Trotskyist, on trumped-up charges of being members of a "terrorist organization." The Socialist Equality Group unequivocally condemns this police state operation. The plot included an operation dubbed "Green and Yellow Dagger", which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials. These low-level young drug "mules," mostly from working-class backgrounds, paid a heavy price after being deliberately handed over by the Australian Federal Police to the Indonesian authorities in 2005. The meeting will be held on January 3, 2025 at the Department of Political Science, University of Peradeniya. The online meeting was part of a campaign to alert workers to the government-initiated police attacks on SDOs and to rally support for their defence. The film's jarring tone stems from the misguided decision to turn a story about abuse and forced sterilisation into an "empowering" feminist tale. India: Chandigarh power workers protest privatisation; Bangladesh: Temporary rail workers demand permanent jobs and outstanding pay; Australia: Qube workers strike at 10 ports for better pay and conditions; Rheem factory workers locked out in New South Wales 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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