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German court convicts student for criticising the military

The conviction of a 19-year-old former pupil in Freiburg for satirical criticism of the Bundeswehr exposes the growing repression directed at young people opposing militarism, conscription and the militarisation of education.

Florian Hasek, Inessa Reed

Debanking: How German banks suppress fundamental democratic rights

The closure of bank accounts of left-wing organisations is part of an authoritarian shift that is taking place not only in the US, but in Germany and throughout Europe. Any critical voice against armament, war, social cuts and layoffs is to be intimidated and silenced.

Justus Leicht, Peter Schwarz

85 years since Finland’s alliance with Nazi Germany

Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to mobilize the population as cannon fodder in an imperialist war of plunder to the East.

David Brown

More than 21,000 nurses in New York City and Long Island poised to strike

The nurses’ determined stand is the first major act in what will promise to be a major year of the class struggle in the US, as workers fight against mass layoffs and other accelerating attacks. But the New York State Nurses Association union bureaucrats are preparing a repeat of their 2023 betrayal.

Erik Schreiber, Steve Light

Homelessness worsens in New Zealand

Amid a surge in people sleeping rough, the government will strengthen police powers to “move on” homeless people from city streets.

Chris Ross, Tom Peters

This week in history: January 5-11

Congress certifies Bush theft of 2000 election; Seymour Hersh exposes CIA funding of Italian parties; South Korean forces massacre hundreds in Ganghwa; Appeal heard for Sacco and Vanzetti.

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

South Korea: Seoul city bus union announces January strike; India: Thousands of gig workers strike on New Year’s eve; Australia: Crown Melbourne casino workers strike over pay cut; New Zealand Woolworths workers walkout.

South Africa’s ANC silent after US-led strikes in Nigeria

It is Abd El-Fattah’s pro-democracy campaigning which angers his persecutors, especially his defence of the rights of the Palestinians against the fascistic Israeli state and its genocide.

Jean de Jager, Alejandro López

Oppose Trump’s criminal invasion of Venezuela! Release Maduro!

The World Socialist Web Site, the Socialist Equality Party in the US and the International Committee of the Fourth International unequivocally denounce the invasion of Venezuela and the criminal abduction of President Nicolás Maduro.

WSWS Editorial Board

Anti-immigrant confrontation in New Zealand

Far-right, anti-immigrant groups are being cultivated and accommodated by key sections of the political establishment in response to mounting social and political opposition.

John Braddock

Australia: Koolewong residents speak about recent bushfires

Their experiences are part of a broader pattern of inadequate preparedness and neglect by state and federal governments to so-called “natural” disasters, which are made more frequent and catastrophic as a result of climate change.

Our reporters

Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky

In a four-part series published in February 2021, the WSWS refuted the 80-year-old unchallenged narrative that Sylvia Ageloff was an innocent dupe who was used by Mercader to gain access to Trotsky.

Eric London

Germany’s economic crisis deepens as mass layoffs sweep industry

Germany is experiencing an accelerating economic crisis marked by mass layoffs across industry, as trade war, militarisation and pro-corporate policies deepen social insecurity for millions of workers and their families.

Philipp Frisch, Dietmar Gaisenkersting

Trump says US strike destroyed large dock facility in Venezuela

During a photo-op with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, President Trump said the US military struck a “big facility” in a dock area in Venezuela where “they load boats up with drugs,” and a “major explosion” occurred.

Kevin Reed

Long COVID and the concealment of pandemic harm

As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact of social inequality.

Benjamin Mateus

AI debt grows and financial risks increase

The past year has seen a significant shift to debt-financed AI operations amid the proliferation of circular deals involving the major players.

Nick Beams

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Thousands of workers across Bolivia are continuing strikes and protests against withdrawal of fuel and other subsidies, while Colorado’s Telluride Mountain ski resort has been shut down as the result of a strike by ski patrollers.

Stop Trump’s mass immigrant roundups!

Under conditions of bipartisan complicity, the Trump administration is building a domestic gulag system of mass detention, rendition and deportation. This assault on immigrants is the spearhead of a broader drive toward dictatorship that must be opposed through independent working class action.

Jacob Crosse

German government abolishes basic welfare support

The German budget abolishes “citizens' income” (basic welfare support) and imposes sweeping social cuts to finance rearmament, war and tax handouts for the wealthy, while expanding precarious work and social insecurity for millions.

Marianne Arens

This week in history: December 29-January 4

Immigrant farmworkers killed in Spain; Venezuela nationalizes oil industry; North Korean and Chinese forces recapture Seoul; Huge funeral march for poet Esenin in Moscow

Demand the immediate release of UK pro-Palestine hunger strikers threatened with death

The brutal treatment by Britain’s Labour government of the hunger strikers is a step change in this lurch to authoritarianism and dictatorship by imperialist powers internationally. The government made clear from the outset that it would not consider any of the legitimate democratic demands of the political prisoners.

Robert Stevens

Joseph Hansen—the FBI’s asset in the SWP

This lecture examines material which has been published in recent years regarding FBI investigation and infiltration of the SWP, and the additional light it shines on the findings of Security and the Fourth International.

Thomas Scripps

Venezuela’s oil and the crisis of US imperialism

Behind the US regime change operation aginst Venezuela is the unique, strategic role, Venezuela plays in the global economy – the largest holder of so-called "proven" oil reserve in the world.

Gabriel Black

High-ranking Russian general killed in Moscow car bombing

There is little question that Ukraine is behind the assassination, which took place against the backdrop of the US-Russia negations over a peace deal and an intensifying drone war by Ukraine on Russian territory.

Clara Weiss
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