 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The demand for mass coordinated action has emerged not from trade union officials or politicians but from below. As the Trump administration proceeds with the military police occupation of Minnesota in the face of mass resistance, and wages war all over the world, the majority of Democrats have joined with Republicans to pass a record military spending bill. Gambian-British citizen and Cornell University graduate student Momodou Taal was detained and questioned by UK police on Friday under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in violation of his rights. By assigning zero economic value to lives saved through environmental protection while attributing full value to corporate profitability, the Trump administration is imposing the entire social and biological cost of production on the working class. Meatpacker Tyson has shut its Lexington beef plant eliminating 3,212 jobs and laid off another 1,761 in Amarillo, reducing the plant to one-shift. Merz in Davos: A call for European great-power politics under German leadership Fedorov's comments underscore that beneath the propaganda and government lies, huge numbers of Ukrainian working class youth refuse to sacrifice their lives in the ongoing imperialist proxy war. The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black mothers in America. For the ruling class, it is essential that Reform be ready to hit the ground running with an agenda for slashing welfare and overall public spending, while vastly increasing military spending with the proceeds. On January 18, the Socialist Equality Party held a memorial meeting to celebrate the life of Ken Mantell, a member of the Trotskyist movement for more than 40 years. Questions are being raised about why a campground at Mount Maunganui, where a huge landslide buried six people, had not been evacuated earlier. Opposition Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins' pledges to address the worsening social crisis are utterly hollow, as is his pretence of opposing US military interventions. Interogation by Chile's infamous Carabineros can easily slip into torture to extract false testimony or confessions. Trading in the market on Tuesday was described as some of the most "chaotic" seen in years. India: Tamil Nadu school midday meal workers strike; Bangladeshi tannery workers demand fixed wages; Qantas workers in Sydney strike for new work agreement; New Zealand firefighters continue nationwide strike action. 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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