 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Congress will certify Trump's election only four years after the failure of his violent attack on the Capitol. The US is building a new $1.2 billion fortified embassy on a 43-acre site near Beirut whose declared purpose is to counter the "Axis of Resistance", meaning Iran. Its scale, out of all proportion to the country's size, is indicative of US geo-political interests in Lebanon, with its strategic location and newly found sources of gas and oil under the eastern Mediterranean Sea. When Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her "Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy" in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was "ultimately about enforcing geostrategic and economic interests." If necessary, this would also be done in "close cooperation with the most reactionary regimes in the world." As Trump's inauguration draws near, the financial oligarchy is more openly asserting its control over all aspects of society, including the so-called "free press." The IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University. Tokyo has all but thrown out the legal limitations set in Article 9 of the constitution, which bans Japan from acquiring military weaponry and waging war overseas. The US market has risen by more than 40 percent in the past two years on the basis of speculative hype and expectations over high-tech and AI. Management at the University of Sydney, historically a centre of political opposition to war and inequality, is moving to prohibit any form of political opposition on campus, particularly to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The distribution workers have been on strike since mid-November, citing seniority treatment and pay which is below the cost of living. This is the latest hub to be closed since the passage of the new Teamsters contract in 2023, which union officials falsely described as a "historic" victory. Öcalan death sentence delayed; Soviet Union launches Soyuz 17; Nkrumah independence campaign in Gold Coast; Polish nationalist campaign on Danzig. The exhibition spotlights a contradictory modern art movement that, though it celebrated technological advances, was rooted in subjectivism and irrationality. Sixth form colleges that have transformed into academies (state-funded but privately run) have been granted funding for a paltry teacher pay rise through the post-16 schools budget grant. But the remaining non-academised sixth form colleges have been given nothing at all. A World Socialist Web Site reporting team campaigned on Friday at the Mount Pleasant mail centre in London for the online meeting on Sunday of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee, "For a rank-and-file fightback against Kretinsky takeover and defence of the mail service." 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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