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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
In the final hours of 2025, strengthen the fight for international socialism
Before the year ends, strengthen the socialist alternative
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2025: The year of mass layoffs—prepare a global working-class counteroffensive in 2026
 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The ruling class has used the year to carry out a deliberate restructuring of production, accelerating automation, artificial intelligence and global reorganization to slash labor costs and vastly enrich a tiny financial oligarchy. CNN confirmed Tuesday that the CIA conducted a drone strike inside Venezuela on December 24, the first air strike on the country since the US military buildup began in August. Washington's aims encompass far more than Venezuela, amounting to a drive for the recolonization of Latin America and the subordination of the region to US profit interests and preparation for world war. It was inevitable that new tensions should find expression in artists' work and erupt as well as within existing industries and institutions Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition within the world population. Germany is experiencing an accelerating economic crisis marked by mass layoffs across industry, as trade war, militarisation and pro-corporate policies deepen social insecurity for millions of workers and their families. Industry analysts predict "wave of bankruptcies" in 2026, as job losses mount in auto parts industry Falling sales and profits, as well as the impact of Trump's tariffs, are among the factors pushing restructuring and downsizing among auto parts suppliers in the US and globally. Eighty-five years ago, the ruling camarilla around Marshal Gustav Mannerheim invited Nazi Germany to garrison Finland and began preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union. In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky. Victorian trade union leader Luke Hilakari said pro-Palestine protesters had "made all the points they need to make about Gaza" and "they just need to back off." Vijayakumar was killed after being struck by a tea-leaf grinding machine that lacked safety guards; Rajinikantha died when a decades-old boiler, which had not been properly maintained, exploded. The decades-long demand for decent, livable housing for Sri Lanka's plantation workers has reemerged with urgency after Cyclone Ditwah devastated estates across all 25 districts. The organization and attacks of ISIS in Turkey reveal the consequences of the Turkish government's reactionary policies regarding jihadist forces. It is Abd El-Fattah's pro-democracy campaigning which angers his persecutors, especially his defence of the rights of the Palestinians against the fascistic Israeli state and its genocide. As Democrats join with Republicans to divert $1 trillion to the military budget, schools are being starved of resources. The FUP's latest betrayal underscores the need for Petrobras workers to form independent rank-and-file committees with an internationalist and socialist perspective. Far-right, anti-immigrant groups are being cultivated and accommodated by key sections of the political establishment in response to mounting social and political opposition. The arrest and prosecution of Chinese researcher Youhuang Xiang, announced December 19 by FBI Director Kash Patel, is the latest episode in an FBI/Department of Justice campaign to criminalize scientific exchange with China. Their experiences are part of a broader pattern of inadequate preparedness and neglect by state and federal governments to so-called "natural" disasters, which are made more frequent and catastrophic as a result of climate change. "Participating in Eurovision allows Israel to maintain the illusion that it is a modern and exemplary Western democracy, and thus to more easily conceal its criminal actions", said the collective of 170 Belgian artists and cultural figures. 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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