 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. Despite claims by the US media that Russia's threats of retaliation are a "bluff," attacks on Russia with NATO weapons would trigger a massive escalation of the war. Sixty people were killed in total in the latest 24-hour period reported by the Lebanese authorities, and 81 injured, taking the total killed since Monday to more than 600, roughly a quarter of them women and children. This has opened up questions about the secrecy of the JC's ownership and funding, something previously unheard of in the British newspaper industry. Dissanayake made clear that the first order of business will be to impose savage International Monetary Fund austerity. With less than two weeks before Stellantis lays off 2,500 workers at Warren Truck, a veteran autoworker is calling for an all-out fight to defend jobs. The aim of the contract negotiations between the Volkswagen board, works council and the IG Metall union is directly the opposite of the workers. While the union bureaucracy are negotiating how to realise the cuts demanded by management, workers are not prepared to make any more concessions. "I think the IAM leadership is trying to smooth this out because they have multiple strikes going on," one veteran worker told the WSWS. Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of law and order whose administration has been engulfed by corruption charges, faces five counts of taking bribes and committing fraud. In response to a nonprofit Haitian immigrant group filing criminal charges against Trump and Vance, Higgins posted a racist statement on X accusing Haitians of "eating pets" and to get "their ass out of our country before January 20th." As protests mount, Cornell University VP of Student Life rejects Momodou Taal's appeal of suspension Students and supporters of Taal held a demonstration in front of the Cornell University administration building Wednesday to demand the immediate rescinding of his suspension for his protest against the Gaza genocide and banning from the campus as a violation of his basic rights. The relentless character of the homicidal Israeli-US war is accompanied by an equally relentless campaign to deny the reality of the genocide and shield the perpetrators. The far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress, backed by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and threats of violence by outright fascists, has sought to censor the film because it portrays ordinary Russian soldiers in a humane manner. The result exposes a cover-up involving the official water authorities, as well as state and federal governments, going back decades. More than 7,000 Michigan Medicine workers are in a fight against the hospital and University of Michigan administration for a new contract. Hawley, a major co-conspirator in the January 6, 2021 attempt to overturn the election, is a leading figure in the Republicans' attempts to make a right-wing populist appeal to workers. Labor's bills would represent a drop in the ocean compared to the acute shortage of affordable housing, and would only benefit the property developers that have a stranglehold over the housing market. French police shot and killed two Kanak militants in New Caledonia as pro-independence groups seek talks with Macron's far-right government in Paris. Rail workers in Greece in 24-hour national walkout to demand more staff and safety measures in wake of fatal rail crash and near miss; workers and pensioners continue protests across Iran over decline in living standards as NATO military attack grows imminent; teachers in and around capital Abuja, Nigeria on indefinite strike to demand 25 months' pay arrears The protests organised under conditions of growing social anger and opposition are aimed at controlling, not mobilising the working class. 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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