 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. There is mass anger in Charlotte and other cities targeted by Trump's mass deportation operation, this anger must be transformed into concrete action to end the attacks on the working class. Verizon posted nearly $5 billion in profit in the third quarter alone and is aggressively restructuring to boost its stock price, slash labor costs and prepare for intensified competition in wireless, home internet and enterprise services. With the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelensky facing a deepening corruption scandal and military crisis, the Trump administration submitted to Kiev on Thursday a 28-point plan for a negotiated settlement of the war. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 50 people on Tuesday—45 men and 5 women—that it said were Ukrainian nationals on a flight from Louisiana to the Ukrainian Shehyni checkpoint on the border with Poland. The absurdity of describing the Trump administration's plan as a peace agreement was underscored in the days following Monday's UN vote. On Wednesday alone, Israel killed at least 25 people across the enclave in a series of air strikes. Mass opposition to governments that slash social rights to fund war and tax cuts for the rich needs international forms of organization and a European and international revolutionary perspective. Textile companies have profited for decades from government subsidies and intense worker exploitation. Now, these companies are eliminating jobs and trying to seize accumulated wages and compensation, pushing workers to resist. "It's a shame what they are doing. And they are doing all over the place. They are so damn greedy. The top 1 percent, what do they control? 60 percent of all the wealth? They are getting it all, but we can't get healthcare, but we can build bombs." Lack of maintenance and the push for profits were among the causes for the November 4 crash of a UPS cargo plane that killed 14 people, according to several UPS workers who work at the Louisville, Kentucky hub and who spoke confidentially with the World Socialist Web Site. Radical journalist and anti-war activist Yves Engler is seeking the leadership of Canada's NDP based on the claim that this moribund, right-wing social-democratic party can be transformed into an instrument to fight the billionaires, oppose imperialism and its wars, and build "eco-socialism." A well-attended public meeting was held in Indianapolis on Monday to review and discuss the Socialist Equality Party's program in response to the threat by Donald Trump to establish a fascist dictatorship in the US following the No Kings protest on October 18. California's action exposes Democratic complicity with Trump's anti-immigrant agenda and deepening attacks on the working class. A December rate cut is starting to look increasingly unlikely as concerns grow over a possible AI bust. All the candidates, from Kast and Kaiser to the Stalinist Jara, focused their campaigns on xenophobic anti-immigrant appeals in combination with vows to get "tough on crime." The phoney populist statements by Labour's Chris Hipkins are driven by fear that working class anger over inequality, pay cuts and war could erupt outside the control of the capitalist political establishment. The union's talk of "full alignment" in some indefinite future is political theatre. A bitter struggle for equal treatment has been reduced to a handful of concessions designed to keep the outsourcing racket intact. Sophie warned that the NHS faces "creeping privatisation and a government that's determined to wage war on it." The following report was given by a senior nurse to an NHS FightBack meeting on Tuesday: "Defeat Starmer-Streeting budget cuts and privatisation! For a united fightback by NHS workers!" Workers at Hellenic Train in Greece walk out over staff shortages and ongoing safety issues; nurses in Mashhad, Iran strike over pay and staff shortages; health workers join resident doctors' stoppage in Nigeria over lack of funding 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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