 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an "interest group" in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class. The threat of a massive American military onslaught on Iran and a broader region-wide war continues to loom large over the Middle East following the latest round of bilateral talks in Geneva Tuesday. The ICE abduction of Amazon Flex drivers Edwin Vladimir Romero Gutierrez and Angel Junior Rincon Perez reveals the exploitative nature of app-based gig work. Predominately composed of immigrant workers, most employees in the gig-economy are faced with no other means of employment. Academic student employees at the University of California system voted to authorize a strike by 48,000 UAW members at one of the largest public university systems in the US. The current strike authorization vote, which goes from February 9 to 20, comes after more than a year of bargaining where NYU administration has rejected key demands, according to the union. Mamdani announced that unless the New York state legislature increases taxes on the rich and on corporations, he will implement a 9.5 percent increase in property taxes in the city to balance the annual budget. The Trump administration's deliberate strangulation of Cuba's economy has created a humanitarian catastrophe that could lead to mass death. Closures eliminate vaccinations, TB treatment and STI testing, deepening healthcare inequities for low-income communities across the county. On Monday evening, Stephen Colbert defied CBS management and told his viewers that an interview he had taped earlier in the day with Texas Democratic Party candidate for US Senate James Talarico had been blocked by the network for political reasons. Outgoing Premier François Legault and his CAQ government have played the leading role—alongside the separatist Parti Québécois—in fomenting an ever-more explicitly far-right, anti-immigrant Quebec nationalism. Walkout joins escalating struggles by academic and healthcare workers nationwide, underscoring the need for unified action against the profit system. Some 3,200 layoff notices will be sent and at least 657 jobs cut, part of plans to reduce as much as $1.4 billion from the district's budget. Protests in South Africa, and the conditions that gave rise to them, echo the experience of the youth-led uprisings seen elsewhere on the continent. The deployment of the army is a pre-emptive measure by the ruling class. On the basis of threadbare evidence and flawed legal reasoning, a court sentenced 12 people to death in what amounts to an act of class vengeance, designed to intimidate rising opposition to the present government's austerity program. Hanson's comments underscore the reactionary climate that has been cultivated by the political and media establishment, particularly in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack. While presented as necessary to combat "hate speech" and ensure students feel safe, Labor's conduct rule changes are a weapon to silence opposition to the ongoing Gaza genocide and imperialist war more broadly. Royal Mail workers at the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre in central London have been discussing the call by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee for a fightback against CWU collusion with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group and the Starmer government. Thirteen months after agreeing to cut 35,000 jobs, the Volkswagen Board of Management is planning the next round of cuts—this time across all group brands. With the development of new AI tools disrupting established business models, financial markets are "wracked with uncertainty" about what comes next. Australia: Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee supports striking US nurses and healthcare workers Australian doctors, nurses, pathology and disability support workers, as well as other hospital services employees, passed a powerful resolution backing the determined strike action by health workers in New York, California and Hawaii. 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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