 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The era in which the interests of the imperialist powers were concealed by diplomatic manoeuvres and international institutions is over. A new era has begun in which they are decidedly open about military force and war. The US government is spending billions acquiring warehouses across the country to "process" those it deems "illegal." Last Friday several hundred Los Angeles-area students faced off and stood their ground when attacked by violent federal agents outside the federal jail in downtown Los Angeles. Workers are outraged by the betrayals of the UAW bureaucracy and the escalating attack on jobs and the social and democratic rights of the working class. David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences. Whatever the final composition of the mission turns out to be, the reality that the imperialist powers are competing as rivals and even enemies in the Arctic will remain. Speaking at a conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and BAE Systems, Ocasio-Cortez accused the Trump administration of insufficient commitment to the US-NATO war against Russia, echoed the Trump administration's accusations that Iran has killed "tens of thousands of protesters" and refused to rule out sending American troops to fight China over Taiwan. Two characteristics of the American petty-bourgeois intelligentsia are highlighted in the Chomsky-Epstein correspondence: an infatuation with celebrity and wealth and a complete lack of genuine intellectual independence from bourgeois society. Angered by the New York State Nurses Association's attempt to coerce them into ratifying a pro-management contract, the striking nurses are unwilling to give up their struggle until they have won safe staffing ratios. Federal investigators found that Kaiser had systematically failed to provide adequate access to in-network mental health and substance use disorder treatment for thousands of members in California. Opposition to the company's proposals is enormous at Whiting, which voted 98 percent to strike. But if the USW's pattern agreement is accepted at other refineries, it sets the stage for a strike to be isolated, giving management the upper hand. The intervention involves both big-business parties collaborating in an even more direct assault on social conditions through a federal decree that the city's budget must be reorganized according to Trump's tax boondoggle for corporations and the wealthy. In December 2024, Works Council leader Daniela Cavallo and IG Metall district manager Thorsten Gröger announced a "Christmas miracle" at Volkswagen: 35,000 jobs cut and wages reduced by up to 20 percent. Now the board members are collecting bonuses of up to €1.75 million each. A list of "safe countries of origin" includes Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Bangladesh, Colombia and Kosovo, paving the way for mass migrant deportations. The worker was killed when a crane crushed him between its excavator arm and the bucket of the front-end loader. Ford worker Thomas "TJ" Sabula has reportedly returned to work after being suspended without pay for calling Donald Trump a "pedophile protector" during the president's January 13 tour of the plant. The CFPE—the educators' rank-and-file network—urges educators to vote yes on the ballot, including for strike action, but warns that the AEU bureaucracy is preparing another sellout deal, as it did in 2022. USIC is owned by Study Group and operates in partnership the University of Sheffield, using its prefix and coat of arms to attract international students to study preparation courses that can cost up to £26,000 per year. The ouster of Imee Marcos from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expresses how Washington's preparations for war with China are driving the conflict between the Duterte and Marcos factions of the Philippine elite. Firefighters who spoke with the WSWS denounced government ministers and right-wing media commentators who attacked them for striking against pay cuts and rundown, faulty equipment. Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy announced her plan to turn down an invitation to attend the festival due to her disgust at the comments made by Wenders and other jury members. Auto factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario; Portuguese Stalinists, social democrats bow to military; US launches counteroffensive in Korea; France sets up puppet advisory group in Annam. 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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