 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Millions across Europe and internationally watched on October 18 as 7 million American youth, workers, professionals and retirees joined nationwide "No Kings" protests. As US missiles killed five more fishermen off the coast of Colombia, the gangster-president boasted, "We're going to kill them, you know, they're going to be like dead, OK?" The move marks an accelerating jobs bloodbath, with rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence being weaponized to eliminate entire sections of the workforce. At the last mayoral debate before the November elections, the DSA-candidate from mayor of New York pledged to keep billionaire heiress Jessica Tisch in charge of the city's massive police force. Barinov has produced the most extensive account yet of the work of the Opposition in Leningrad, its structure, leading figures and activities among students and the working class. The 1,726 detainees returned to Gaza appeared emaciated, bruised and scarred from tight cuffing, wearing grey prison uniforms, with shaven heads and overgrown beards and their faces making plain the suffering they had endured. New data on a widening nine-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor retirees demonstrates the devastating impacts of the US' profit-driven healthcare system. Largely ignored by governments and trade unions, the SARS-CoV-2 XFG variant has, in a short time, become the dominant variant worldwide. Advocates of direct cooperation with the AfD are now so strong that the CDU's executive committee met for a two-day retreat last weekend to discuss how to deal with the right-wing extremists in the future. The future of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum—home to the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh—now hangs precariously in the balance. The Dutch government's plans to slash annual funding for arts and culture threaten one of humanity's most vital cultural institutions. The mass strike by teachers, nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers is part of an international upsurge of the working class against brutal austerity, pay cuts and imperialist war. Despite billions wasted and hundreds of thousands already killed in the proxy war with Russia, Ukraine and its EU backers remain committed to war. The corporate media's coverage, Hedges said, "legitimises mass slaughter. It refuses to hold Israel to account. It betrays Palestinian journalists, those reporting and being killed in Gaza." As two developments underscore, the NTEU has opposed any unified action by university staff and students against the restructuring and job destruction across the country. Refuse workers in Italy walk out in national action over pay and conditions; protests continue across Iran over wages, pensions and conditions; demonstrations in Morocco against poverty and inequality, while in Tunisia police arrest environmental protesters 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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