Headlines at the World Socialist Web Site today:
1. Trump and Netanyahu pledge Middle East bloodbath will continue in 2026
Since the start of the Gaza genocide in October 2023, over 71,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 20,000 children. On August 22, famine was officially declared by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification—the first famine ever confirmed in the Middle East—which called the hunger crisis “entirely man-made.” The healthcare system has collapsed. Every university has been leveled. The population has been bombed, starved, denied medicine and driven from their homes repeatedly for over two years.
Under these conditions, Trump speaks of Palestinians “wanting” to leave—as though a population being systematically exterminated were freely choosing to abandon their homeland rather than being expelled through murder and starvation.
The “ceasefire” announced in October has given the capitalist powers’ stamp of legitimacy to the permanent Israeli occupation and annexation of a large portion of Gaza, coupled with daily mass killing and the deliberate starvation of the population.
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The “ceasefire” has served as the framework for Israel’s continued expansion in the occupied territories. Defense Minister Israel Katz has pledged that Israel will “never leave” Gaza and will resettle its northern areas. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has proposed annexing 82 percent of the West Bank to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. In October, the Knesset voted to advance an annexation bill. Under these conditions, the capitalist media has declared that there is “peace” in the Middle East.
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The Democratic Party has systematically enabled Trump’s global onslaught. In December, 115 House Democrats—including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark, and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar—voted for a $901 billion defense authorization, $8 billion more than Trump requested. Twenty-seven Senate Democrats supported it. In April, Senate Democrats overwhelmingly rejected resolutions to restrict arms sales to Israel. Both parties represent the interests of the same ruling class, and no faction of the political establishment opposes the global expansion of American militarism.
In the year 2025, capitalism has normalized genocide. The capitalist media has proclaimed “peace” under conditions in which an entire population is being relentlessly starved, bombed and displaced.
Throughout the past two years, millions of people have taken to the streets in mass protests against the Gaza genocide. Demonstrations on every continent demanded an end to the slaughter. Yet despite this unprecedented outpouring of opposition, the capitalist parties have only normalized genocide. The protests have been ignored, suppressed and criminalized. All efforts to pressure the political establishment—through elections, through lobbying, through appeals to international law—have led nowhere. Biden armed the genocide; Trump has embraced it openly.
The lesson of 2025 is that the fight against war and genocide cannot be waged through the institutions of capitalist rule. What is necessary is the independent political mobilization of the international working class against the capitalist system itself.
2. Six Years of Covid-19: Long COVID and the concealment of pandemic harm
The United States has now entered the seventh year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the country is moving through what the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) characterizes as the 12th major wave. What makes the present period politically decisive is not only the level of transmission, but the systematic degradation of surveillance, the frontal assault on public health institutions, and the deliberate normalization of mass infection—conditions that for good reason undermine public trust in the official figures posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
Within this context, the PMC at Tulane University has stepped in to fill the void in public health information. According to the PMC’s December 22, 2025 national estimate of the scale of transmission in the United States, based on wastewater surveillance, around 732,000 people are being infected daily. In the current year, there have been a total of 232,000,000 infections. The same dashboard estimates that one in 67 people (1.5 percent of the population) is actively infectious on a given day, and that cumulative infections per person since the start of the pandemic have reached 4.86, a clear reflection of the official policy of repeated exposure.
This is not an abstract curve. The PMC estimates that new infections are generating 224,000 to 890,000 Long COVID cases per week. Even under conditions of lowered acute fatality risk compared to the first two years of the pandemic, the PMC estimates 220 to 360 excess deaths per day from new infections and 1,300 to 2,200 excess deaths per week from new infections. These are deaths “in excess” of expected baselines, and are frequently not recorded as “COVID deaths” in routine tallies.
At the same time, the very wastewater-driven heat map that the PMC draws on highlights how fragmented and incomplete US surveillance has become. Large sections of the country are marked as having “limited data,” while the map itself warns that the data are “lagged” and levels are “worse than shown.” This is a practical expression of the political assault on public health: society is being led through an ongoing mass-disabling event with the instruments for measuring it intentionally blunted.
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Six years after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the most consequential and enduring dimension of the pandemic is Long COVID, which provides the clearest explanation for the persistence of excess disease, disability and mortality worldwide despite repeated claims of normalization.
First, Long COVID represents a massive global burden of disease. A growing body of high-impact research converges on the finding that approximately 6 to 10 percent of all SARS-CoV-2 infections result in symptoms lasting at least three months, with prevalence rising substantially after severe or repeated infections (Ballering et al., 2022; Davis et al., 2023; Global Burden of Disease Long COVID Collaborators, 2022). A large multinational cross-sectional study spanning 33 countries found persistent post-COVID symptoms across all regions and income levels, with fatigue, cognitive impairment, cardiopulmonary symptoms and autonomic dysfunction among the most frequently reported manifestations (Amin-Chowdhury et al., 2025). Taken together, these findings indicate that hundreds of millions of people globally are now living with Long COVID, establishing it as a population-scale chronic health condition rather than a marginal post-viral syndrome.
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Second, reinfection substantially amplifies the risk of Long COVID, including among children and adolescents. Analysis from the RECOVER-EHR program during the Omicron era found that the incidence of Long COVID approximately doubled following reinfection, with cases encompassing autonomic dysfunction, fatigue syndromes, cardiovascular symptoms and neurocognitive impairment (RECOVER Initiative, 2024). These findings directly contradict claims that repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections are benign, particularly in younger populations.
Third, routine healthcare data captures only a fraction of Long COVID cases, leading to systematic underestimation of prevalence. A 2025 population-based study from the Barcelona Integral Healthcare Consortium, using primary-care electronic health records, initially identified Long COVID in 2.4 per 1,000 individuals. After correcting for under-ascertainment related to missed diagnoses, delayed presentation and inconsistent coding, prevalence increased by more than 25 percent, with a clear dose-response relationship: prevalence rose steadily with each additional infection (Català et al., 2025). The critical implication is not the precise percentage, but the structural limitation of health system data, which detects only a subset of cases—particularly among working-age adults who remain partially functional while chronically ill.
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Six years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the evidence is no longer ambiguous. The continued spread of SARS-CoV-2, the mass emergence of Long COVID, and the steady accumulation of chronic disease and excess death expose a social order that has treated mass infection as an acceptable cost of doing business. The pandemic was never merely a medical emergency. It has always been a class event, shaped by decisions that subordinate human life to profit, market stability, and geopolitical agendas.
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The decay of public health institutions must be understood in this light. The erosion of data systems, the undercounting of COVID-related deaths through misattribution to pneumonia and cardiac causes, and the abandonment of mitigation are not technical errors awaiting correction. They are expressions of a social system that no longer even pretends to place collective well-being above private accumulation. Where data remain robust, as in Finland, the scale of ongoing harm becomes visible. Where they do not, it is merely concealed.
The lessons of the pandemic point inexorably toward the need for an independent response by the working class. The defense and reconstruction of public health—universal access to care, clean air, paid sick leave, transparent surveillance and sustained scientific investment—cannot be entrusted to institutions that have already demonstrated their allegiance to profit over life. A socialist reorganization of society is not an abstraction, but a practical necessity if humanity is to confront a pandemic that has not ended but been politically obscured. The fight for public health is inseparable from the fight for social equality, and it must be taken up consciously and internationally.
3. Trump says US strike destroyed large dock facility in Venezuela
The strike appears to have involved air‑launched precision munitions delivered from US forces operating offshore, but the lack of official clarification highlights the lawless character of the operation. Experts have said there is a likelihood that the “facility” was a civilian port or dual‑use maritime infrastructure.
As of this writing, no authoritative source has provided details of what happened.
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As of Monday, Venezuelan officials had not issued a detailed public statement confirming damage or casualties at the dock facility mentioned by Trump. Previously, the Venezuelan government has denounced the boat strikes as “serial executions” and an “undeclared war,” warning that Washington is preparing an invasion under the pretext of drug interdiction. Caracas has also accused the US of seeking regime change to seize control of the country’s vast oil reserves.
Accepting that a land strike has in fact occurred, it is the latest in the months‑long US campaign of terror from the sea and air. Since early September, US forces have carried out at least 30 lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing approximately 105 people. These operations, run through US Southern Command and involving an aircraft carrier strike group, an amphibious assault ship and thousands of Marines, have turned international waters off Venezuela into a killing field.
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Not a single leading Democrat has denounced the boat and dock strikes as war crimes or demanded the immediate withdrawal of US forces from the region, confirming that their differences with Trump are tactical and not fundamental.
The latest strike on Venezuelan territory is an act of aggressive war, in direct violation of the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force and the sovereignty of states. Aggression—the launching of war without lawful justification—was declared “the supreme international crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal, which tried, convicted and punished leading Nazi officials, including by hanging, for planning and waging wars of conquest.
The US campaign of massacring boat crews on the high seas and now striking land facilities inside Venezuela under bogus “anti‑drug” pretexts falls squarely into this category, placing Trump, his generals and his accomplices among the imperialist war criminals of the 21st century.
The US has not been attacked by Venezuela and Trump’s claims that the drone strikes are in “self‑defense” against narcotics traffickers are blatant lies. Washington is exploiting its overwhelming military superiority to achieve regime change and strategic dominance in contempt of both domestic and international law.
As the World Socialist Web Site has explained, the assault on Venezuela has everything to do with oil and imperialist geostrategy. US imperialism is seeking to overthrow the Maduro regime and install a government that is subordinated to Wall Street and the Pentagon.
The awarding of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado is a signal from all the imperialist powers that regime change in Venezuela is on the agenda. As the WSWS has noted, Machado’s political supporters openly advocate the use of violence and foreign intervention, and she has coordinated plans with the Trump administration for the “first 100 hours” after Maduro’s removal.
Historically, the US state has repeatedly collaborated with and utilized drug traffickers as instruments of policy, from CIA‑linked operations in Central America to the protection of friendly regimes and paramilitary forces across the hemisphere. The same apparatus that now denounces “narco‑terrorism” has long encouraged and manipulated the drug trade to deepen its control over sections of the Latin American bourgeoisie and to finance covert operations beyond the scrutiny of the population.
Behind the war drive against Venezuela is the broader imperialist strategy of asserting US hegemony over the Western Hemisphere. Trump’s own statements and policy directives have included threats to seize control of the Panama Canal, annex Greenland and treat Canada as a de facto “51st state,” an open program of 21st‑century colonialism.
4. UK Labour government and Supreme Court continue cover up of “dirty war” in Ireland
Nearly 31 years after Paul “Topper” Thompson was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in Springfield Park, Belfast, the UK Supreme Court ruled, last month, against the release of a summary of intelligence documents relating to the killing.
The ruling, which overturned a previous coroner’s decision, relied on the so-called “balance of the public interest”, a euphemism for covering the tracks of informers or agents operating on behalf of the British state. It upholds the “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND) stance taken by the British government when one or more “covert human intelligence source(s)” (CHIS) or surveillance operations are in danger of being publicly exposed.
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Thompson, a 25-year-old Catholic man, was shot dead late in the evening of 27 April 1994. The shooting was claimed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), military wing of the loyalist Ulster Defense Association.
5. Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah finally cleared of Zionist-instigated allegations
For more than two years, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah, a prominent author and academic at Sydney’s Macquarie University, has been the victim of a Zionist-orchestrated attack resulting from her defence of the rights of the Palestinians and criticism of the crimes of the Israeli state.
Finally, 10 months after her Australian Research Council (ARC) fellowship was suspended in February at the behest of the Albanese Labor government after a Zionist and media witch hunt, she has been exonerated on the trumped-up allegations against her.
On December 23, Abdel-Fattah announced on Instagram: “After a 10-month exhaustive, rigorous investigative process, I have been cleared of all allegations raised against me and my employment suspension has been lifted and my ARC Future Fellowship reinstated.”
The suspension of her grant was the product of an orchestrated assault by Murdoch media outlets, lobbyists and politicians that sought to conflate opposition to the genocide in Gaza with antisemitism.
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Abdel-Fattah’s reinstatement is to be welcomed, but the wider political context makes clear that this is only a partial and temporary reprieve. Labor and Liberal-National governments, the corporate media and the university apparatus have used charges of “antisemitism” as a political weapon to suppress dissent and shut down campus protests.
Abdel-Fattah has been far from alone in being targeted. In Australia, other critics of Israel tarred as anti-Jewish bigots and persecuted by governments, the corporate media and Zionist organisations have included journalists Mary Kostakidis, Antoinette Lattouf and Peter Lalor, Jewish Council of Australia executive officer Sarah Schwartz, University of Sydney academics John Keane and Nick Riemer, and the same university’s sociology professor Sujatha Fernandes and sacked academic Tim Anderson.
6. Book Review: Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan
In October 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant invoked the Third Anti-KKK Enforcement Act, declared martial law in nine counties in the South Carolina piedmont, and ordered soldiers to suppress what Grant called a “conspiracy” against the Constitution, which had recently, through ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, been altered to enforce the revolutionary results of the Civil War by guaranteeing equal protection and the right to vote.
In a proclamation issued in May, shortly after signing the Enforcement Act into law, Grant had declared:
I will not hesitate to exhaust the powers thus vested in the Executive, whenever and wherever it shall become necessary to do so for the purpose of securing to all citizens of the United States the peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution and laws.
In October, Grant followed through on his promise.
Guy Gugliotta, historian and former Washington Post reporter, describes the crackdown in South Carolina in his recent book, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. The federal government had spent months developing a network of informants, using the threat of federal prosecution under the Enforcement Act to thoroughly infiltrate the Klan. The Third Enforcement Act—so called because it “enforced” the Reconstruction Amendments—authorized the suspension of habeas corpus, giving federal authorities the power to arrest and detain suspected Klan members without charge. It also made it unlawful for two or more people to conspire against the civil rights of others, an underutilized provision that remains on the statute books.
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Five years have passed since Donald Trump led a coup attempt to overturn the Constitution and establish himself as presidential dictator. The putsch failed, though not on account of any serious opposition from the Democratic Party or incoming Biden administration. In the half-hearted impeachment effort that followed, Democrats allowed the 15 Republican Senators who had expressed support for Trump’s coup to cast votes against conviction. They should have been barred by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which excludes individuals who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from serving in either house of Congress. Had they been barred, Trump would have been convicted by one vote.
The impact of the Democrats’ failure to prosecute the conspiracy is impossible to overstate. The insurrection has continued, and its leader now occupies the White House. None of the conspiracy’s leaders spent a day behind bars, with the exception of Steve Bannon, who was convicted of contempt of Congress and spent a few months in jail in 2024. All Congress could muster in the years that followed was a law that made it somewhat more difficult for Trump to employ the same “alternative electors” stratagem in subsequent plots. In any case, the Supreme Court subsequently held that the president is constitutionally immune from “official acts” engaged in while president.
During his first year in office, Trump has been using his “official acts” to make good on his 2022 pledge to “terminate the Constitution.” Among his first moves in office was pardoning the lower-level participants in the mob that marched past Grant’s statue and up the Capitol steps on January 6. Many have doubtless joined the ranks of ICE and CBP as they carry out their conspiracy against the population in plain sight and under ostensible color of law.
Today, “enforcement” of the democratic gains of the first two American revolutions requires mass action. The impetus for the necessary revolutionary overhaul of society will come from the working class and it will require the abolition of capitalism.
Venezuela and its oil reserves, the largest on the planet, are the immediate target of US imperialism’s predatory operations. Trump has made this explicit in statements to the media and ranting social media posts. He has vowed that US military attacks would only escalate “Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.” Making good on these threats, Washington has carried out the pirate-like seizure of oil tankers on the high seas and imposed a blockade, a direct act of war, aimed at starving Venezuela into submission.
But the so-called “Trump corollary,” as well as the fascistic and mafia-style pronouncements of its namesake in the White House, make clear that Washington’s aims encompass far more than Venezuela. They amount to a drive for the recolonization of Latin America as a whole and the abject subordination of the entire region to US profit interests and the Pentagon’s preparation for world war.
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Historically, Venezuela has played an outsized role in the evolution of US imperialist doctrine in the Western Hemisphere. This is due in part to its vast petroleum wealth, which, at the height of Standard Oil’s dominance, accounted for fully half of the profits that US capitalists extracted from Latin America.
US interventionism in Venezuela, however, predates even the onset of large-scale oil drilling by just over a decade, beginning with the so-called Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903.
8. Thai government turns to war and nationalism ahead of general elections
A fragile ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia commenced on Saturday following weeks of intense border fighting that displaced large numbers of civilians and brought the two countries to the brink of a wider military confrontation.
Under the terms announced by Bangkok, the two countries will observe a 72-hour ceasefire period, after which—if Thailand judges the truce to be holding—it will return 18 Cambodian soldiers captured during clashes in July.
Troops on both sides, however, remain deployed in forward positions, and none of the underlying territorial or political disputes that fueled the conflict have been resolved.
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The ceasefire has brought to a pause what had become the most sustained escalation of border fighting between the two countries in more than a decade. The clashes involved artillery exchanges, air strikes and armored deployments across multiple sections of the disputed frontier. Casualty figures remain contested, but at least several dozen civilians and soldiers have been killed on both sides, with many more wounded. The number of civilians forced to flee are estimated at around 700,000 to over one million people, far exceeding the scale seen during the 2008–2011 Preah Vihear conflict and creating a humanitarian emergency that remains unresolved despite the truce.
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The ceasefire was announced without any confirmed role played by external powers. Despite public claims by Donald Trump, neither Thailand nor Cambodia credited the United States with mediating the truce. Posting on Truth Social, Trump declared he was “proud to help,” echoing earlier boasts in which he ludicrously claimed to have “ended eight wars.” His previous claims of having brokered a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia in October collapsed within weeks as fighting resumed, exposing the hollowness of his self-promotion as a global peacemaker.
China likewise played no role in brokering the current ceasefire but has begun hosting diplomatic talks with both governments in Yunnan province on Monday. The absence of decisive involvement by either Washington or Beijing underscores the unstable and ad hoc character of the ceasefire, which reflects immediate military calculations by Bangkok and Phnom Penh rather than a durable diplomatic settlement.
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The ceasefire with Cambodia has not altered the fundamental character of the border dispute. As previous analysis has shown, the conflict has nothing to do with defending the interests of ordinary people, but is a political instrument used by both regimes to divert attention from austerity, repression and economic decline, while maneuvering within the sharpening confrontation between the United States and China across the Indo-Pacific.
9. AI debt grows and financial risks increase
Information and data are now emerging about the growing flow of debt used to finance the artificial intelligence (AI) boom and how major corporations are devising financial mechanisms aimed at trying to escape the consequences if the expanding financial bubble bursts.
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JP Morgan has said that $1.5 trillion in AI-related debt will be needed by 2028, with AI infrastructure spending projected to reach $5-7 trillion by the end of the decade.
Major tech companies, including Meta, Elon Musk’s xAI, Oracle and data center operator CoreWeave are leading the way in devising means by which they are shielded from a collapse of the boom by setting up special purpose vehicles (SPVs) funded by Wall Street investment firms.
Financial firms, including Pimco, BlackRock, Apollo, Blue Owl and banks such as JP Morgan have supplied at least $120 billion in debt, according to the FT.
The advantage for the firms creating the SPVs is that the debt they incur is off balance sheet making it easier for them to continue raising money in the corporate bond market. But it creates new levels of risk under conditions where it is far from sure who will be on the hook if the projects funded by the SPVs do not generate sufficient revenue.
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The practices which played a major role in the 2008 financial crisis are also making a return with securitization of AI debt. This is the practice where lenders pool loans and sell off slices of them to other investors in the form of asset-backed securities. So far, the numbers are not large, but they are a warning sign.
The development of AI, if it were used in a consciously controlled and rational manner as augmented intelligence, could provide enormous economic advances. But its development under the capitalist system of private ownership and market relations contains within it the seeds of a financial crisis which could rapidly germinate.
These arise from insufficient revenue being generated from the application of AI to finance the massive spending on data centers, problems associated with the development of the electricity needed to operate them and the prospect that technology changes will lead to more efficient and less costly methods being developed, meaning that the present projects will become so-called “stranded assets.”
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The interconnected character of the finance deals means that problems in one area of the AI boom can rapidly spread to others.
Storm said that to many observers “these astronomical circular financing deals” brought back “traumatic memories of the circular financing arrangements of the late 1990s, when vendors reinforced each other’s dotcom stock valuations without generating any real value.”
In fact, the situation is potentially far more serious because the financial system, along with debt, has grown by leaps and bounds since then and has become ever more integrated such that a crisis or collapse in one area of the market has the potential to set off a broader crisis.
The crisis of 2008 and the market freeze of March 2020 were both warnings of such an event.
hile there are clear indications that the financing of AI is setting up the conditions for a crisis, there is another issue which must be considered.
What if the estimates of the financial benefits of AI, on which the massive investments have been based, prove to be correct, or at least partially so?
The only way that can happen is if the companies using AI generate vastly increased profits by a massive reduction in their cost structure through the elimination of vast swathes of jobs, particularly in so-called white collar and computational occupations. There are already indications of that starting to take place as major firms announce mass layoffs.
The development of either scenario, or a combination of both, raises the need for the working class to wrest the ownership and control of this major technological advance from the financial oligarchy and utilize it in the development of a planned socialist economy.
10. Fabricated ICE narratives collapse as Minnesota raids escalate
On Monday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, federal immigration and law enforcement agencies launched a publicly coordinated operation targeting alleged “fraudulent” daycare and healthcare centers operated by Somali Americans.
Under conditions where Trump’s popularity is collapsing over his cover-up of the Epstein files, warmongering and self-dealing, the police action against immigrants is being widely promoted by senior officials in the administration and right-wing propagandists.
11. Australian governments discussing domestic military deployment after Bondi attack
At a press conference on Sunday, New South Wales (NSW) Labor Premier Chris Minns stated that discussions were underway about deploying the military domestically in the wake of the December 14 terrorist attack in Bondi.
That is one component of a feverish attempt by governments and the ruling elite to exploit the Bondi atrocity to vastly expand state powers and to crackdown on fundamental democratic rights.
Minns’ comments were prompted by a question from a journalist. But his response made clear that he was not merely responding on the fly or proffering his own personal opinion. “We’re in discussions about it,” Minns stated, adding, “I’m not prepared to front run it because obviously that’s a change for us.”
The latter comment pointed to the veil of secrecy behind which unprecedented and authoritarian measures are being imposed.
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The rush with which governments are instituting anti-democratic measures shows that the horrific Bondi attack is the pretext for longer-term plans. The moves towards authoritarianism, paralleling those of governments around the world amid a breakdown of global capitalism, can only be defeated by building a socialist movement of the working class directed against the entire political establishment.
12. Online Public Meeting: Bondi terror attack—a socialist assessment
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) invites workers, youth and World Socialist Web Site readers to an online meeting to examine the political significance of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, which is being exploited to implement a raft of anti-democratic measures that will inevitably be used against the working class.
WHEN: Sunday, January 11, 2 p.m. AEDT; December 30, 7 p.m. PST
WHERE: Online public meeting—register here
13. Workers Struggles: The Americas
Argentina:
Bolivia:
Canada:
Porter Airlines flight dispatchers move towards strike position
Honduras:
Thousands march against electoral fraud
United States:
Ski patrollers strike Telluride, Colorado resort
Teamsters file charges against Airgas as seven-month strike drags on
14. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The fight for the Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist's freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide, dictatorship and fascism.
