 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The media is suddenly full of pressing items it has not seen fit to feature previously, relating the horror stories of those whose medical treatment was delayed, denied or generally undermined. The main determinant of Turkey's recent Syria policy has been to prevent the creation of a Kurdish state on its southern border and the encouragement of similar tendencies among the large Kurdish population inside the country as well. Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican Party, hailed Milei's measures in Argentina, proclaiming, "We are going to do the same thing in the United States." Fifty-four percent of these children spent some time "doubled up," or unavoidably sharing the housing of others, while another 41 percent are in families that sought space in city shelters, leaving over 7,000 children who may have spent some nights on the streets or the subway system. Gropper at his best mercilessly skewered the charlatanry and fakery of American political life, while capturing the plight of the poor and the destitute. The Trudeau government has used the CIRB and a cooked-up "reinterpretation" of Section 107 of the Labour Code to break a series of strikes, and now threatens to use them against the 55,000 striking Canada Post workers. Germany's Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are aggressively recruiting war volunteers among young people. Students have reacted with outrage at the university and police attempts to silence dissent on the campus. The disciplining of the youth, for wearing a keffiyeh, was clearly directed by the NSW Labor government. The Democratic Progressive Party in a Facebook post compared the situation in Taiwan to that in South Korea and referred to the opposition Kuomintang and the Taiwan People's Party as "dark evil forces" against which "Team Taiwan" had been fighting. Over 150 faculty, staff and students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-D) campus gathered on Tuesday, December 3 to protest looming department cuts and staff layoffs in the upcoming winter semester. The New South Wales government's workplace safety regulator has refused to release the most recent data on silica dust exposure so as to protect the reputation of major construction companies. On strike for more than three months, Marathon workers called for joint action to stop the cutoff of their insurance on December 13. Educators, support staff and other workers staged protests in Argentina over austerity, while 5,000 Providence hospital staff are in position to strike in Oregon. The fall in Labor's primary vote over the past month, from 30 to 27 percent, represents Labor's worst result since it barely scraped into office in May 2022. National Health Service England's first report of the winter warned, "New weekly figures published today for the first time this year show the NHS is going into winter under more pressure than ever before". 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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