 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The initial architect of the horrific "herd immunity" mass infection policy towards the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump is picking up where he left off four years ago and escalating far further. Recalling the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920, the US government is resorting to police state methods against immigrants in preparation for broader attacks on the entire working class. The US President appeared Thursday at a virtual panel at the World Economic Forum, the annual global meeting of bankers and oligarchs, in which he coupled threats of trade war with promises to slash the US corporate tax rate, gut environmental protections, and slash social spending. The meeting, bringing together representatives of the four largest militaries in the Indo-Pacific, was a clear signal that the Trump administration will intensify military preparations and threats directed at China. There is concern over how much longer governments can continue to finance the mountain of debt they have accumulated, which the IMF estimates to be $100 trillion globally. In an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, President Donald Trump made it clear that release of emergency assistance to victims of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires will be contingent on political conditions imposed by the White House on California. On Thursday, January 16, 49-year-old Cornelius Taylor was killed in Atlanta, Georgia, when the tent he was sleeping in was razed by a front loader ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. The nominations were largely weak and uninspiring, more than in recent years, reflective of a film industry in economic and artistic crisis A survey of its members by the Royal College of Nursing union found that two-thirds had daily delivered care in what they considered an "inappropriate setting". Workers using the gig economy apps are being held to ransom by companies charging fees for wages to be paid on time. YoungOnes charges workers 4.8 percent of their earnings to receive their wages in one minute, 2.9 percent to receive it in three days, or they can decline and receive their wages after waiting 30 days. Quebec's ruling elite is seeking to tighten its political and ideological grip on the working class with the fraudulent argument that working people should stand with big business in defending "Quebec's interests." Developments in Saxony belie all talk by the establishment parties of a supposed "firewall" against collaborating with the Alternative for Germany (AfD). They show how far advanced the integration of this far-right party into the state already is. The new Minister of Health Simeon Brown is an anti-abortion bigot and one of the most vocal opponents of the public health measures used to stop the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic. While the popular swimming and fishing spot is officially "closed," warning signs are tiny and easily missed despite the presence of toxic chemicals. Workers voted by 99 percent last week to authorize a strike to win substantial raises, better retirement benefits and equal wages with Detroit Diesel workers. Thousands of Teleperformance call centre workers in Greece strike over poor pay and conditions; general strike in West Bank city of Jenin against Israeli army murders as annexation is planned and Gazan Palestinians face expulsion and relocation; national strike by health workers in Morocco over pay, staff and funding shortages, with protests against government attempts to curb strikes 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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