 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The fires raging out of control in Los Angeles underscore how the socialist transformation of society by the international working class is not only possible but urgently necessary. The bureaucracy is trying prevent an open conflict between dockworkers and the incoming fascist administration. Providing a "smooth transition" for incoming President Donald Trump, Democrats joined with Republicans to advance the "Laken Riley Act," which will greatly empower anti-immigrant attorney generals and racist police to imprison and deport immigrants, including children. The New Year rings in a massive jobs bloodbath in public schools impacting hundreds of teachers and support staff, and thousands of students and their families. The fires, which are expected to intensify Friday with the return of Santa Ana winds, are already the costliest in the history of the United States. On New Years Day, an estimated 125,000 residents of San Diego insured under Anthem Blue Cross were shocked to learn they lost all access to their insurance coverage at their healthcare provider, Scripps Health. "How can people's lives be improved when the people with the best ideas and solutions are repressed by institutions?"—Dr. Marc James Léger, Montreal, Canada The Centre for Retail Research estimate around 170,000 jobs were lost in the UK's retail sector in 2024. This was the highest number since the 200,000 lost in 2020 as a result of the forced closures during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The continuing fall in bond market yields reflects the fear of long-term deflation. In Brisbane, Dr Zewlan Moor said she was speaking as a socialist, condemned the complicity of the Australian government in the genocide and called for an independent movement of the working class to fight it. Albanese is aiding the normalisation of fascism represented by the Trump administration, while pledging to collaborate with it in a war drive in this region and internationally. Between October and December 2024, 25.1 million Nigerians were estimated to be acutely food insecure by the UN World Food Programme, a figure predicted to rise to 33 million in 2025. Contracts for tens of thousands of supermarket and grocery store workers will be expiring in 2025, beginning with the agreements for 17,000 workers at Safeway and King Soopers in Colorado in January and February. The workers are expressing determination to fight a repetition of the sellout contracts that were forced onto them by the UFCW in 2022. The workers' primary demands include safer staffing levels, livable wages, tangible improvements in working conditions, and reliable, affordable healthcare. Stoppage by hundreds of postal workers in Germany over pay and conditions on eve of national pay negotiations; strikes and protests by oil and steel workers and retirees in Iran against falling living standards, joined by Haft-Tapped Sugarcane workers on strike for over a week; union urges bus workers at Northwest Transport Investments in South Africa to end strike without demand for unpaid wages being met 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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