 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The closeness of the race does not mean that tens of millions of American workers are in favor of a fascist dictatorship. Instead, it reflects a deep and widespread hostility toward the Democratic Party, which is both opposed to and incapable of advancing policies that address the needs of the broad mass of the population. The US Defense Department announced Sunday that a THAAD missile defense battery manned by US soldiers is being deployed to Israel, marking the first time US "boots on the ground" are being deployed to Israel since the October 7 attacks. In court Friday, Boeing argued it deserved a lesser penalty for two fatal crashes because it is a "pillar of the national economy and the national defense." "While you face ruthless enemies, you have even more powerful friends—the American and international working class." The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is standing in general elections to be held on November 14, with a list of 41 candidates in three electoral districts. The SEP's election intervention aims to build an independent political movement of the working class based on international socialism against world war, austerity and dictatorship. The scandal-ridden US Supreme Court has begun its new term facing public hostility not seen since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision of 1857. The Democratic National Committee office served as a major campaign hub in the pivotal "battleground" state. Amid the barrage of federal indictments and corruption investigations faced by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the Democratic politician's inner circle is quickly falling by the wayside. Unions representing thousands of workers at Michigan Medicine, the hospital system operated by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, are telling their members to report to work on Tuesday and cross picket lines during a one-day strike by their fellow 2,700 members of the SEIU. School closures and devastating cuts are hitting schools across the US, both urban and rural due the Biden administration's ending of COVID relief funding. While Quebec Premier François Legault wants to expel half of all refugee claimants to other provinces, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touts the possibility of adopting "European asylum models," which have turned the continent's external borders into impassable blockades and the Mediterranean into a massive graveyard. DP World's threat to cancel a £1 billion investment project resulted in an immediate retraction by Starmer and other leading figures. The infamous acts occur on a daily basis. The mass murder in Gaza has become a war of extermination extending to the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond. High-level talks on the Pacific colony's future will not resolve the acute social crisis among alienated Kanak youth behind the ongoing unrest. The general response to Saturday's announcements was while they were a step in the right direction, they were not specific enough. CIA role in bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade; Ford testifies on Nixon pardon; CPUSA leaders jailed under Smith Act; First Manifesto of Surrealism published. Chemical leaks this week at petrochemical plants in Baton Rouge and a Houston suburb led to fatal and serious worker injuries. The facilities had been cited repeatedly for safety and environmental violations. The life-time ban, which has kept him out of baseball's Hall of Fame, has been maintained even as legalized betting has become a huge revenue source for professional sports. 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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