 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Amid the escalating US-NATO war with Russia, the European Council's adoption of the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 marks a decisive turn toward a fully militarized Europe, laying the groundwork for dictatorship and global war. The total announced layoffs in 2025 is the fifth highest in the last 36 years, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas. More than 4,000 VW workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee are still without a first contract one and a half years after voting to join the UAW. In the first mass call following Saturday's protest, which drew an estimated 7 million people, speakers called on participants to support their local Democratic Party politicians. The purge took place as President Xi Jinping confronts accelerating US preparations for war with China, a slowing economy, high unemployment, especially among young people, and rising social tensions. The communiqué from the fourth plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee said China would seek to "upgrade traditional industries as well as foster, strengthen and expand emerging and future industries." The arrest and indictment of 34 individuals, including Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, by the FBI for insider sports betting and rigged high-stakes poker games, has revealed American society to be politically, socially and morally hanging by a thread. Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a shaky truce last weekend in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey after more than a week of military clashes, in which scores and likely hundreds died. "At the top level, they have all the money in the world. Why don't they just stop taking money from low-income people? Take it somehow from the rich people." The Taiwanese semiconductor industry functions essentially as a component of US imperialism's military industrial complex and its campaign of military aggression. A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan's entirely legitimate social media activity. "Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized." The October 21 CWU update to members on Royal Mail/EP Group negotiations explodes the fraud of "mutual interests" between postal workers and EP Group the union has promoted. Canada's federal Liberal government, led by former central banker and Goldman Sachs executive Mark Carney, is pushing forward with two bills containing sweeping attacks on democratic rights and immigrants. Boyd's spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeff Hood, who was in the chamber with him, described the execution as "torture." "Labor might appear a little bit more like they care about healthcare and whatnot but at the end of the day, their funding and backing is from the big corporations and banks, and that's who they prioritise." Hundreds of care workers protested around the country against attacks on their wages and conditions, but the ASU leadership ensured the rallies were stage-managed affairs aimed at isolating them from other sections of the working class. At an outdoor strike rally, NTEU representatives partnered with the university's security chief to ban members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality from campaigning at the event. India: Strike by Delhi Municipal Corporation workers enters third week; Bangladesh: Non-government secondary school teachers remain on strike; Australian Catholic University staff strike for pay rise and job security; Rix's Creek coal mine strike in New South Wales continues. 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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