 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. A measles outbreak is now ripping through the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where the Trump administration confines hundreds of immigrant families and children under conditions of deliberate brutality and medical neglect. As support for a nationwide general strike grows, Democrats in Congress are prepared to join Republicans in passing Trump's war budget, which includes further funding for ICE and CBP. A group of music artists made public statements during their acceptance speeches—Olivia Dean, Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny, in particular—in opposition to the assault by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the rights of immigrants. The arrest of Edwin Romero Guttierez, a Venezuelan national, is part of an escalating series of ICE actions in Southeastern Michigan. An integrated network of surveillance, tracking and identification technologies are being used by gangs of ICE and CBP agents in US cities for targeting both immigrants and citizen protesters. The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us. The Socialist Equality Party (SGP) welcomes the rapidly growing opposition to the union apparatus and supports workers who want to free themselves from its straitjacket. A struggle must be waged against the union bureaucrats, who are working with management and the government to impose another concessions contract. Amid a massive social polarisation, the old parties of the centre that have defended capitalist rule for decades are fracturing. After falsely pledging to improve living standards and defend democratic rights, the government is stepping up its use of repressive measures against the working class. Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece. The coalition agreement unveiled on January 30 is the Dutch expression of a continent‑wide reorganisation of capitalist rule around permanent war, authoritarianism and a frontal assault on the working class. Several thousand pharmacy and laboratory workers in Southern California, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), have voted to authorize a strike beginning February 9, highlighting the potential for a broad, working class movement in defense of public health. The handover of Venezuela's oil reserves to US imperialism by its Bolivarian regime is relentlessly unmasking anti-Trotskyist forces internationally. Tens of thousands took part in the 34th national demonstration in London against the genocide of the Palestinians and the war on Gaza. The February 6 protest highlights growing antiwar sentiment in the working class and the need to build rank-and-file committees affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees to free the struggle from the influence of Stalinist and Pabloite parties. The latest disaster is part of a long-time pattern in which ferry and maritime safety are ignored for the benefit of big business. Last week's fall, which wiped off around $80 billion from the market, was sparked by an adverse report from global index provider Morgan Stanley Capital Investment, which sets ratings for markets. The mechanism for this round of SNAP cuts is extending work requirements from age 54 to age 64. The concessions proposed by BMC would worsen chronic staffing shortages and cost nurses thousands of dollars a year, hurting patients and nurses alike. Since Labor's expansion of the First Home Buyers scheme in October, prices of eligible lower-cost homes have risen 50 percent more than those of more-expensive properties. The election's result is the political responsibility of the nominal "left", in particular the pseudo-left Broad Front (FA) and its satellite organizations, which entered a de facto alliance with the traditional parties of the local oligarchy. 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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