 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Despite the claims of UAW President Fain and the Biden administration that the contracts are "historic," there was widespread opposition among workers, which will only grow in the weeks and months ahead. Since October 7, nearly 100 have been killed in Lebanon, including 74 members of Hezbollah, and nine in Israel, including six IDF soldiers. Roy's comments speak to the revulsion felt by hundreds of millions at the savagery of the Israeli destruction of Gaza. In order to initiate an international working class mobilization aimed at halting arms shipments to Israel, a political struggle against the nationalism of the petty-bourgeois pseudo-left parties is necessary. Anti-genocide protesters with Democratic Party-aligned groups interrupted speeches given by Reps. Katie Porter and Adam Schiff, both of whom have refused to endorse a ceasefire. The vote was a massive repudiation of Peronism and its candidate, Economy Minister Massa, who was the face of social austerity and devaluations of the peso at the behest of the IMF and the corporate-financial oligarchy. The police-state machine's response to mass protests in Spain and internationally against genocide in Gaza is to accelerate plans for a coup to install a far-right regime aiming to crush the workers. While the precise reasons for his removal remain unknown, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was fired on Friday in a boardroom coup. Santos is being punished because his lies promoted his personal financial interests, rather than those of Wall Street and corporate America. Striking MGM Grand casino workers have voted down a supposed "historic" agreement that would have kept workers locked into poverty rates of pay as gaming profits surge. The UAW announced ratification of its agreements at the Big Three while ignoring the broad opposition to the deals. Playing a leading role in the building of a system of US-led alliances in the region, Tokyo bears significant responsibility for the rising danger of war in East Asia. "Do not live your life as you used to live before COVID and ignore something that is present and killing Australians." Sunak's response to the Supreme Court ruling against deportations to Rwanda demonstrates that any differences he has with Suella Braverman are purely tactical. "There's obviously a powerful movement of the people supporting those in Palestine. But the government isn't doing anything about it." In key working-class suburbs, the SEP speakers raised the need for independent action by workers to stop the genocide and fight militarism. The largest events have been in Bekasi, where tens of thousands rallied on November 12, filling a main thoroughfare in the city centre and leading to road closures. Despite Parker presenting her agenda as catering to the "common sense" working person, the longtime Democratic Party official won't resolve the issues which plague the working class of Philadelphia. Panamá continues to be roiled by protests over First Quantum Minerals mine deal while rural mail carriers in Bemidji, Minnesota are staging daily informational pickets over deluge of work. The traditional mouthpiece of Canada's business elite has denounced the Trudeau government's proposed "anti-scab" law and defended the use of replacement workers as employers' "best lever" in countering strikes. As the US medical establishment largely justifies the genocide in Gaza, healthcare workers voice their opposition and join the mass movement of workers against the war on Palestine. 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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