 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. On Wednesday, Amnesty International published an exhaustive 296-page report proving that "Only an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza" can "explain the scale and scope" of the mass murder, forcible displacement, and deliberate starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza by Israel. Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were welcomed to Washington by Republicans and some Democrats, who provided the unelected reactionaries a closed audience to discuss their shared plans to slash regulations and enact spending cuts, including to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. On Thursday, Akron authorities released edited bodycam and dashcam video of the police shooting of 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker on Thanksgiving night. Only a day after the NFP joined the neo-fascist National Rally in censuring the government Macron had formed, several of its parties began discussing how to serve under Macron. Canada Post strikers are determined to wage a struggle. But they are being hamstrung by the disastrous policies of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Canadian Labour Congress, which are forcing the workers to stand alone against the combined strength of corporate Canada and its bought-and-paid-for political representatives. If allowed to stand, the order creates the conditions for any strike, even one that is legally "protected" under Australia's harsh industrial laws, to be undermined and effectively broken up by the state. Robert F Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has promised to end water fluoridation, a program which has been called one of the 10 greatest achievements in public health. Based on Wednesday's oral arguments, the reactionary majority on the United States Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee's ban on transgender medical care for adolescents, calling into question equal protection more broadly. The film distribution network has refused to see to it that the work is actually shown to the public in the US. At a press conference called by the Tahrir Coalition, the IYSSE at the University of Michigan issued a statement headlined: "Drop all charges against the UMich 11! Drop the complaint against SAFE! Defend free speech and assembly!" Following the collapse of Germany's coalition government and the announcement that an election would take place on 23 February 2025, members and supporters of the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) have collected hundreds of signatures in working-class neighbourhoods in Berlin. The so-called "refugee question" is not just one issue among many, but an integral component of bourgeois politics. Demonstrators holding aloft EU and Georgian flags are working to drive out the ruling Georgian Dream party, which Washington and Brussels views as insufficiently pliant. Citing slogans that contain no insults or calls for violence as evidence of a criminal offence itself exposes Turkey's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. During the sweltering summer of 2022, three workers died due to the excessive heat at separate Amazon warehouses in New Jersey. The company has denied all responsibility. The proportion of Australians aged 55 to 64 who own their homes outright fell by almost half between 2000 and 2020, from 63.9 percent to 36.1 percent. The Health Workers Rank-and File Committee—a group of doctors, nurses, pathology and ancillary health workers from across Australia—extends its full support and solidarity to striking Woolworths and Lineage Cold Storage workers. South Korean commuter rail workers strike over pay and conditions; India: Ludhiana Civil Hospital contract workers demand permanency and higher pay; Australia: Essential Energy electricians continue five months of industrial action; St Vincent's private hospital nurses strike again in Victoria His speech did more than regurgitate the Thatcherite nostrums of Tony Blair's New Labour. It confirmed that there is no limit to the lurch rightwards of Starmer's declared "party of NATO", of Zionism and the most "business friendly government" in British history. Stellantis has announced the closure of the Luton van plant, directly axing at least 1,100 jobs, with production ending in the second quarter of 2025. 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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