 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The attempted military coup is a warning, not only to workers in South Korea but internationally, that the ruling classes around the world are being driven to dictatorial methods to impose their agenda of war and austerity. A movement must be prepared and built in the working class, to bring down Macron and halt his most widely despised policies of austerity and imperialist war. The response was delivered after the US announced what were called "groundbreaking and sweeping" bans on Sunday, the third in a series of such measures undertaken by the Biden administration. Following hot on the heels of a new aggressive US Arctic strategy, the policy document will outline plans to strengthen Canada's influence and military capabilities in the energy-rich and geostrategically critical region. There is one "justice" for the ruling class and something entirely different for workers and poor people. The fascist president-elect has named six billionaires to high positions since Sunday. On Monday, Trump threatened, "If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East". Mexico's President Sheinbaum denied Trump's claims that her administration has agreed to "effectively close" the US-Mexico border to migrants, but in reality this has already taken place. Large numbers of workers from throughout Woolworths, Coles and more broadly must be rapidly mobilised to defend the strike, or this important struggle will be crushed. Brian Thompson CEO of the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was murdered Wednesday morning as he was walking to the company's annual investor conference in New York City. The shooter is still at large. The working class in the metro Detroit area must come to the defense of the more than 250 Marathon refinery workers who have been on strike for three months. The war plans of Washington against China involve the return of Japanese militarism to the Philippines, a country it occupied and ravaged during World War II. SWAPO's decline and that of other anti-colonial national movements have exposed the organic incapacity of Africa's bourgeois nationalists to realise the aspirations of the African masses for freedom from foreign domination, democracy and social justice. Hundreds of contract workers face losing their jobs, and the IG Metall union is refusing to defend them. After workers resoundingly rejected Labor's original offer, the HSU blocked any industrial action for more than two months, before pushing through a virtually unchanged deal. Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Shane Lamond exchanged hundreds of encrypted messages and phone calls with Proud Boy leader and FBI informant Henry "Enrique" Tarrio in the lead-up to the attack on the Capitol. Kaur took the opportunity of receiving the prestigious Turner Prize in a ceremony held at the Tate on December 3 to denounce the Israeli crimes. Two club officers of the Students for Justice in Palestine were barred from campus and the club has had its activities halted for petty reasons. 76 higher education institutions are imposing restructuring and redundancy plans, according to an official report by the Office for Students, a UK government regulator. 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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