 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The mass protests in Israel will change the political climate the world over—just as did the abortive Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. As strikes spread across Europe and internationally against austerity and inflation, an explosive confrontation is emerging between the working class and the financial oligarchy. WSWS reporters spoke to nurses on the picket lines during this week's 48-hour strike across England on January 18/19. The United Kingdom, Poland and the Baltic states announced Thursday a pledge to carry out an "unprecedented" increase in arms shipments to Ukraine with the aim of facilitating a military offensive to recapture territory held by Russia. The crisis is rooted in the organization's increasing inability to mask its naked pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist essence. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress Thursday that the US government had reached its borrowing limit and the Treasury had begun to carry out financial operations that would enable spending to continue only until early June. Lehman submitted additional reports, based on information forwarded to him by workers, that the UAW Locals did not update the Local Union Information System with rank-and-file members' contact information. In 2022 the unionization rate in the US fell from 10.3 percent to 10.1 percent, continuing a decades long decline that has seen membership fall to its lowest levels since records have been kept. The emerging scandal comes on the heels of last year's exposure of former Unifor president Jerry Dias, who was disgraced after an investigation revealed he, acting as a shameless COVID profiteer, received and tried to cover up a $50,000 kickback to promote a private company's virus testing kits. The SGP is contesting the Berlin House of Representatives (Senate) election on the basis of a socialist programme opposing war. In recent days and weeks, tens of thousands of climate change activists have tried to prevent the destruction of the hamlet of Lützerath and the excavation of further brown coal, which will pollute the environment with an additional 280 million tons of CO2 over the next eight years. Ardern is standing down as the Labour Party government's support plummets amid a worsening social crisis, an out of control pandemic and demands by the ruling elite for major attacks on workers' jobs and living standards. Economic data revealed that growth in the Chinese economy had fallen to its lowest levels in decades last year as the population fell by 850,000 in 2022—the first such decline since the so-called Great Leap Forward in the 1950s. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has rammed through a sellout contract at Mount Sinai Hospital following its isolation and shutdown of a three-day strike, according to reports Thursday. More details of the vote results have yet to be released as of this writing. Schools across the country are grappling with serious difficulties flowing from the inability to appoint the required number of teachers. Keith Davis Jr. had been in jail since 2015 despite one acquittal, two mistrials, and two overturned convictions. Research published this week in BMJ Global Health finds that pregnant women who contract COVID-19 face a seven times higher risk of dying. Babies born to women with COVID-19 also face significant health risks when compared to the newborns of women not infected with the coronavirus. As evidence continues to accumulate against Solomon Peña, the failed Republican state House candidate turned shooter, Democrats issue calls to "agree to disagree." National one-day strike in France against government plans to increase retirement age by two years; doctors across Spain walk out over staff shortages and pay; UK health workers' strikes over low pay and staff shortages continue as teachers vote to walk out; protests continue across Iran over police murder of Mahsa Amini, joined by cost-of-living strikes by oil and gas workers; strikes by Lebanese workers including telecom workers and teachers in response to ongoing economic crisis The Community trade union appeals to a government waging a ruthless offensive against striking workers and seeks to tie steelworkers to a bankrupt nationalist programme. 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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