 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The unexpected and sudden death of Helen Halyard at the age of 73 deprives the working class in the United States and throughout the world of a courageous and selfless fighter for socialism. Israel and its imperialist backers have used the destruction of hospitals, starvation and dehydration as weapons for the mass murder of the population of Gaza. A class confrontation is rapidly coming to a head in Canada's second-most-populous province, with major implications for workers across North America and around the globe. The strike by 66,500 teachers has shut down approximately 40 percent of Quebec's public schools and set a militant example for the more than a half-million other provincial public sector workers across the province without contracts since March. Prior to the reading of Awartani's statement at his vigil, Brown University President Christina Paxson was booed off the podium by students for refusing to endorse a ceasefire in Palestine and the divestment of Brown from war profiteers. The march was held in support of the grotesque political lie that opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza is equivalent to anti-Jewish hatred. Undoutbedly, concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater will surge even more in the weeks ahead, as the impacts of record holiday travel on viral transmission are fully logged. Opposition continues to mount among rank and file actors and entertainment workers after details of the tentative agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) were released last Friday. Workers at the highly profitable Detroit casino earn as low as $11-$12 an hour and are still laboring under terms of a contract negotiated in 2015. The contract brought back by the UAW bureaucracy is a brazen attack on workers' living standards, with sub-inflation raises which will leave workers poorer by the end of the four-year agreement. After the outbreak of the new Israeli war against Palestinians a number of critics discovered antisemitism in the book and denounced Shibli as a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activist. Next year's election has taken on global significance as the Biden administration, following on from Trump, has deliberately transformed Taiwan into a dangerous flashpoint for war with China. Yoon's trip points to the integration of European imperialist powers into the web of military alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific to prepare for conflict with Beijing. It is an obscenity that the livelihoods of fighters for the working class are threatened. Those who should face the axe are the pro-company bureaucracy responsible for the betrayal of those they were meant to represent. The TA is a sellout that would increase pay from only $35,700 a year to $40,000 a year, still below a living wage in the city of Los Angeles. For the second time in a week, workers demonstrated at Westmead Hospital in opposition to the assault on Palestine and Israel's targeting of health workers. Rising rents across the country mean the number of homeless people in Germany is also increasing dramatically. 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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