West Contra Costa California educators and classified workers launch joint strike
The strike by 3,000 educators and support staff has shut down normal operations in one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest school districts.
•Renae Cassimeda
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Holiday jobs massacre: Mobilize the working class to defend the right to a job!
The normal platitudes about “love and good cheer” are being overshadowed by massive inequality.
•Tom Hall
More than 7,200 healthcare workers at Oregon Health & Science University authorize strike
Healthcare workers at Oregon Health & Science University overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike action, demanding higher wages and safe staffing, as unions work to isolate struggle from broader working class movement.
•Bryan Dyne
Video of September 2 killing showed US massacred “shipwrecked” people, House committee leaders say
U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two “shipwrecked individuals” were “killed by the United States military.”
•Andre Damon
Crisis and division grip Bolivia’s new right-wing government
Caught between the demands of global finance capital and the resistance of the working class, Bolivia’s ruling class is incapable of governing in the old way.
•César Uco
Australian economy “flat” amid global volatility
The data shows a drop to zero in the per capita growth rate, under conditions of rising inflation, a continuing cost-of-living crisis and low levels of corporate investment, except for AI-related data centres.
•Mike Head
Sri Lanka: The JVP/NPP government moves to cut social welfare
The attack on benefits for the poor is part of unprecedented attacks on living standards, as the government imposes the austerity measures demanded by the IMF.
•Saman Gunadasa
Massive flooding in Asia leaves over 1,500 dead, hundreds missing
Capitalist governments around the world have taken no serious steps to address climate change and other forms of environmental degradation that contribute to the extreme weather events now unfolding on a regular basis.
•Ben McGrath
Retired CDC vaccine expert blasts anti-science policy shift
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once the premier disease-fighting institution in the US, and even the world, has been taken over by anti-vaccine quacks under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
•Benjamin Mateus
Royal Oak, Michigan parents oppose fascist high school club
A packed meeting of the Royal Oak Board of Education heard parents describe the forming of a Turning Point USA club at the local high school as a threat to their children.
•Esther Galen
Camp Mystic announces plans to reopen with new flood precautions as FEMA chief steps down
The lawsuits allege that camp management was long aware of the risk of flooding at the camp and failed to take action to save the lives of the 25 children who died during the July flood.
•Alex Findijs
Sri Lanka: Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in central plantation district demand permanent housing and condemn plantation management
Nuwara Eliya District, with a population of 724,957 and located in a hilly region, is among the worst hit by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides and stone slides.
•Our reporters
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Tens of thousands in Bulgaria and thousands in France take to the streets to oppose austerity budgets; strikes and protests continue across Iran as currency in freefall; health union suspends Nigerian doctors’ month-long stoppage with demands unfulfilled
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Timeline of the Hillsborough disaster and cover-up as it unfolded (1989-2025)
Over 36 years, an orchestrated cover-up was organised by Britain’s ruling elite to ensure that no-one was ever brought to justice over the deaths of 97 Liverpool Football Club supporters.
•Robert Stevens
Final investigation into 97 deaths at Hillsborough stadium caps decades-long cover-up
The Liverpool supporters were crushed and suffocated to death after police gave the order to open an egress gate just before the kick-off of an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989. Thousands of fans were directed into two already dangerously overcrowded pens.
•Robert Stevens
Taiwan to increase its military spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2030
Increased military spending demands an intensifying assault on the living standards of Taiwanese workers and masses.
•Shih-Yu Chou
Artists in America face food, housing and healthcare insecurity as global art sales reach an estimated $57.5 billion
The figures are startling, revealing a body of men and women often obliged to work two, three or four jobs to stay afloat and facing uncertainty and precarity on various fronts.
•David Walsh
Zionist lobby groups and the German press attempt to censor pro-Palestinian art exhibition
A coordinated campaign is underway by Zionist lobby groups and the German press to censor and/or close the exhibition "Commune – The Paradox of Similarity in the Middle East Conflict", which has been on display in Potsdam since mid-November.
•Stefan Steinberg
30 percent of US corporations planning holiday season layoffs
The picture that emerges is of a massive redistribution of wealth from the working class and more economically vulnerable sections of the middle class to the wealthiest layers of society.
•Tom Hall
Court rules dissolution of the Palestine Congress 2024 in Berlin was unlawful
A Berlin court has ruled that the violent shutdown of the 2024 Palestine Congress was unlawful, exposing the arbitrary political actions behind the police operation. The judgment highlights how the German authorities have trampled on democratic rights to suppress criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
•Justus Leicht
The “garbage” in the White House: Trump’s racist diatribe against Somalis
For the third time in less than a week, Trump, surrounded by cabinet officials and fellow Republicans, denounced all people from Somalia as “garbage.”
•Jacob Crosse
Trump’s Ukraine plan destroys alliance with Europe
Until a few years ago, the US and European powers worked closely together to encircle Russia and bring Eastern Europe and large parts of the former Soviet Union under their control. But now the axis of conflict is shifting. The rivalry between the US and Europe is increasingly coming to the fore.
•Peter Schwarz
Ken Mantell, Australian Trotskyist: November 11, 1945–November 30, 2025
It was as a steel fixer that Ken joined the Socialist Labour League, the precursor to the Socialist Equality Party, in the early 1980s. Once convinced of the program and the need to build the revolutionary party, he never wavered.
•Cheryl Crisp
Postal workers: Come forward with information on workplace deaths and unsafe conditions!
“The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations to take control.”
•USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
A top-level warning of heightened global financial risks
The combination of record levels of government debt and the involvement of speculative capital in its financing is presenting “new financial stability challenges,” according to the Bank for International Settlements.
•Nick Beams
Australian inquest whitewashes the far right over fatal Wieambilla shootout
The inquest into the killing of three police found the Trains were motivated by a psychotic disorder, even though it heard extensive evidence that they were far-right extremists motivated by apocalyptic Christianity and conspiracy theories.
•Oscar Grenfell
Missouri attorney general calls for ICE investigation of signature-gathering on behalf of anti-gerrymander referendum
The Republican official made the bogus and inflammatory claim that the company involved was “employing illegal aliens” to gather signatures.
•Julian Blackwood, Alexander Fangmann
Hundreds of federal agents begin anti-immigrant raids in New Orleans
The attack is the latest police-state operation carried out by Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security on the orders of Trump.
•Patrick Martin
Mamdani, speaking with comedian Adam Friedland, reviews “productive” meeting with fascist Trump
Reflecting the political character of their milieu, most of Mamdani and Friedland’s half-hour discussion centers on casual, empty-headed conversation, with several interruptions to check soccer scores and ad breaks for nicotine and sexual performance products. While by no means a master manipulator, Friedland’s characteristic rambling and aimlessness hide a sharper intent.
•Luke Galvin
Sri Lanka: Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah demand permanent housing, not temporary patchwork solutions
A distressed flood-surviving woman asked: “Our parents were submerged in water. We, too, have gone under water. Will our children also suffer the same fate?”
•Our reporters
Australia: Two workers killed on Queensland building sites in 24 hours
A series of deaths points to the subordination of workers’ health and lives to the interests of corporate profit through speed-ups, subcontracting and casualisation.
•Our reporters
Canada officially loses its measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health
More than 5,000 measles cases have been confirmed in 2025 compared to 147 in 2024, with infections reported in nine provinces and the Northwest Territories. Two deaths have been recorded, both infants exposed to the virus in utero.
•Omar Ali
Erdoğan government escalates the class war over minimum wage
Following the 2023 presidential elections, Mehmet Şimşek was appointed as the Minister of Treasury and Finance to impose the severe austerity program demanded by international and domestic financial capital.
•Barış Demir
Agency workers join Birmingham bin workers dispute as Unite appeals to strike breaking Labour council and Starmer government
On Monday, agency workers employed through Job & Talent—used to supply the council’s strikebreaking workforce—began indefinite strike action after voting to do so two weeks ago in a ballot organised by Unite. Around 40 agency workers joined the dispute.
•Tony Robson
TDU conference endorses Trump supporter Sean O’Brien for re-election as Teamsters general president
This is the inevitable outcome of their rejection of a struggle by the rank-and-file to overthrow the corrupt union apparatus in favor of bureaucratic self-reform, and its program of combining workers’ “democracy” without a fight against capitalism.
•Alex Findijs, Tom Hall
Trump’s Caribbean murders and the legacy of Nuremberg
The Trump administration's series of murders in the Caribbean is the consummation of decades of murder, torture and aggressive war by US imperialism, all illegal under the precedent set by the 1945 Nuremberg tribunal.
•Andre Damon
Trump plans to expand asylum ban, deploy ICE Gestapo against Somali immigrants
The fascist in the White House delivered a racist rant targeting Somalis as he ordered the ICE Gestapo to Minnesota.
•Jacob Crosse
Christmas in Detroit: Holiday galas for the rich as GM workers face mass layoffs and low-income residents are evicted
At the start of the holiday season, General Motors announced the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers, and dozens of low-income and elderly tenants at the historic Leland House downtown were abruptly told they must leave their homes.
•Jerry White
Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay
Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
•Fred Mazelis
More than 50,000 workers demonstrate in Quebec against austerity and anti-strike laws
Workers’ determination to resist the dismantling of public services and the Legault government’s attacks on democratic rights—including the right to strike—was palpable.
•Our reporters
Germany’s Greens approve delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine
The Greens’ party congress demonstrates that they have moved even further to the right, endorsing the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and preparing for a future war with Russia. Behind their moral posturing lies the real class basis of their politics: unwavering loyalty to German imperialism and the capitalist system.
•Peter Schwarz
Massive humanitarian crisis looming in the wake of Ditwah cyclone disaster in Sri Lanka
Heartbreaking scenes reminiscent of the 2004 tsunami are now unfolding across Sri Lanka. Shocking accounts continue to emerge from flood- and landslide-devastated areas as survivors begin to access previously cut-off regions.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Australia: False claims of “backflip” on job and course cuts at University Technology Sydney
At the UTS rally, union speakers claimed to be “winning,” even as the vice-chancellor’s update showed that the majority of the cuts and course closures are still proceeding.
•Erika Zimmer
South Korea ramps up war preparations against China
Under Lee Jae-myung and the Democrats, Seoul is marching in lockstep with Washington’s aggressive imperialist agenda, demonstrating that there is no section of the South Korean ruling class opposed to war.
•Ben McGrath
New Zealand Māori Party in chaos
Competing sections of the indigenous capitalist class appear to be fighting for control of Te Pāti Māori, which is threatened with a split.
•Tom Peters
Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party founding conference: Witch-hunts and expulsions against the left
The founding conference began with witch-hunts and expulsions against the left and continued with every conceivable form of bureaucratic skulduggery.
•Laura Tiernan
Mehring Yayıncılık holds screenings of Tsar to Lenin in Istanbul and Izmir
At events held by Trotskyist publisher Mehring Yayıncılık to screen the documentary film Tsar to Lenin, Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, gave a speech on the relevance of the October Revolution of 1917.
•Our reporters
Teachers in secondary school in Bacup, England to strike demanding face to face qualified teacher in the classroom
School management have employed a virtual teacher 300 miles away in Devon because of the chronic shortage of maths teachers.
•Margot Miller
US immigration authorities reviewing status of 3.3 million “green card” holders
The shooting of two National Guard soldiers, one of whom has died, has become the pretext for an assault on the democratic rights of immigrants.
•Patrick Martin
Two Palestinian brothers, 8 and 11, murdered by Israeli drone strike in Gaza
The Israeli military fired a drone strike in Gaza and killed two children in an eastern neighborhood of Khan Yunis on Saturday.
•Kevin Reed
The Wang Fuk Court Fire in Hong Kong: A crime of global capitalism
The catastrophes of Wang Fuk Court and Grenfell Tower are spectacular and tragic eruptions of the miserable, and entirely preventable, world housing crisis. They are not mere excesses, nor failures of regulation, they are an inescapable part of capitalism.
•Erik Long
Australia: Yarram workers and residents oppose sawmill closure
“It’s not just the 73 people on the ground, it’s the truckies, diesel mechanics, the other shops in town. People won’t be spending money if there’s no money to spend. And it’s right on Christmas.”
•Our reporters
The fight against the far-right Alternative for Germany requires a fight against capitalism
The mass protests against the far right are significant because the AfD is being ever more openly integrated into the political establishment and substantial parts of its programme are being implemented by all the parliamentary parties.
•Christoph Vandreier
Tens of thousands protest in Giessen against the far-right Alternative for Germany
As the AfD launched a new Hitler-Youth-style organisation in Giessen, tens of thousands of young people filled the streets in defiance of police violence.
•Marianne Arens
Customs and Border Patrol abducts 2 16-year-old Detroit high school students in predawn raid
In a predawn raid November 20, CBP agents seized two cousins from Venezuela who attend Western International High School
•Phyllis Steele
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers at the Gabriel Passos Refinery in Brazil say they will continue their walkout for equal pay, while some 50,000 workers marched through downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest government policies.
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Mamdani silent as NYPD attacks protest against Trump’s immigration Gestapo
The protest successfully thwarted the ICE/CBP raid, despite violent assaults by the NYPD, which operates under Mamdani’s re-appointed police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.
•Daniel de Vries
The Gelfand Case: 1978-1982 (Part 2)
This lecture traces the filing of Alan Gelfand’s lawsuit against the SWP and the US government through the outcome of the motion to dismiss in June 1980.
•Tom Carter
Sri Lanka: Communal provocation over Buddha statue in Trincomalee
The fact that the JVP/NPP government rapidly caved in to the Sinhala Buddhist supremacists over the statue is a warning that it will not hesitate to resort to communal politics to divide the working class.
•Saman Gunadasa
Germany rearms for war with Russia in 2026 war budget
Eighty years after the unprecedented crimes of the Wehrmacht and Hitlerite fascism, the ruling class is once again pursuing a massive rearmament program that breaks with all post-war restrictions and is systematically preparing Germany for a third world war—with Russia as its main target.
•Johannes Stern
Australia: Sawmill closure destroys 73 jobs in Yarram, Victoria
Workers were given no forewarning, arriving at work to be told they would be made redundant, effective immediately.
•Taylor Bennington
Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson signals willingness to meet with fascist Trump
Wilson made no attempt to expose or condemn the criminality of the Trump administration, including the ongoing US-NATO backed war against Russia in Ukraine and the preparation for war against Venezuela.
•Michael Connolly
After Canadian police raid homes, 6 World Beyond War peace activists face charges over protest against arms fair
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (Canada) unequivocally condemn these raids and charges. They represent a serious escalation of state repression aimed at criminalizing anti-war and anti-genocide dissent.
•Pierre Lajeunesse
UK Labour government to massively restrict right to trial by jury
The UK government aims to introduce legislation to end jury trials for all cases carrying a maximum sentence of less than five years.
•Steve James
UN says Israel has “de facto state policy” of organised torture
The UN committee found the death toll in Israeli custody to be “abnormally high and appears to have exclusively affected the Palestinian detainee population” and noted that “to date, no state officials have been held responsible or accountable for such deaths”.
•Jean Shaoul
After nationwide strike, Belgian unions block further action against austerity budget
Last week, a powerful three-day nationwide strike movement against austerity halted public services, logistics, and industrial activity across Belgium.
•Alex Lantier
Sri Lanka: Over 330 dead from Cyclone Ditwah, hundreds of thousands impacted
The Sri Lankan president's declaration of a state of emergency is aimed not at saving lives, but at suppressing potential social unrest.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Zelensky’s chief of staff and closest ally forced to resign amid massive corruption scandal
With Yermak’s ouster amid peace negotiations with Russia and growing popular anger, the fate of the Zelensky regime is hanging by a thread.
•Jason Melanovski
Italy’s general strike and protest of November 28–29: A political eruption of the working class against war and austerity
Italian workers launch the third nationwide strike in three months, confronting austerity, militarism, and war while linking their struggle to global class resistance.
•Marc Wells
To stop the ICE raids in Chicago: Mobilize the working class through rank-and-file committees
The central question posed by this emerging struggle is how to transform spontaneous resistance—walkouts, neighborhood patrols, school-based defense efforts—into a conscious, organized movement of the working class.
•Kristina Betinis
Australian governments invoke Nazi actions to crack down on democratic rights
The repressive laws, providing the state with powers to prosecute Nazi “ideology,” are a precedent for further attacks on the working class and the socialist movement.
•Oscar Grenfell
Rolling strikes continue in New Zealand
The trade unions are preparing to impose pay settlements of 3 percent increases or less, well below the soaring cost of living.
•John Braddock
Kennedy installs anti-vaccine loyalist, Ralph Abraham, to finish purge of CDC
Dr. Ralph Abraham, a former Republican congressman with a record of anti-vaccine activism, has been installed as the second-in-command of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signaling an end to any effective public health activity by the agency.
•Benjamin Mateus
US war crime exposed, as Trump escalates assault on Venezuela
The order to slaughter defenseless survivors in the water constitutes a blatant war crime in furtherance of Washington’s entirely criminal and predatory war aims.
•Bill Van Auken
German unions silent over their state visit to Israel
The German unions secretly sent a forty-person delegation to Israel to demonstrate solidarity with the Zionist Histadrut amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This revealing silence exposes the alignment of the German trade unions with Berlin’s war agenda.
•Marianne Arens
Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler: November 10, 1956 – November 28, 2025
Elli joined the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, the predecessor organisation of the SGP, in 1975 at the age of 19 and fought continuously for 50 years for the perspectives of the world Trotskyist movement.
•Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
Nuremberg: Where does fascist barbarism come from?
The film gives a largely accurate account of the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, but it seeks the cause of the Nazis’ crimes in their individual psychology.
•Sandy English
Kshama Sawant runs for Congress posing as an independent socialist
Kshama Sawant’s congressional campaign is an effort to channel workers’ growing opposition to the existing system back into Democratic Party reformism and away from the revolutionary fight against dictatorship and capitalism.
•David Fitzgerald
DSA member Rae Huang announces candidacy for Los Angeles mayor
As with Mamdani in New York and Wilson in Seattle, the DSA-backed campaign of Rae Huang is a political trap.
•Marc Wells
This week in history: December 1-7
UN report tallies world toll of AIDS; Indonesia invades East Timor; US military evacuates Pyongyang; Saudi forces capture Medina
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Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza
While Oborne offer a biting and passionate critique of the UK’s support for Israel and complicity in its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, his disgust and moral outrage is no substitute for explaining its causes.
•Jean Shaoul
Death of 15-year-old in Turkey underscores widespread child labor exploitation
Muhammed's death has brought to sharp relief the fact that children are subjected to uncontrolled exploitation, with the cooperation of the government and companies, and the complicity of the trade union apparatus.
•Süleyman Sağlam
As Henry Ford Genesys nurses complete third month on strike, management steps up strikebreaking
Despite the great determination evinced by nurses, the main danger is that they remain isolated as Ford continues its operations.
•Shannon Jones
Disastrous “Ditwah” cyclone creates immense catastrophe, killing potentially hundreds across Sri Lanka
Natural disasters, including landslides, are not purely natural phenomena but catastrophic creations of the profit-driven capitalist system.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Trump threatens to denaturalize and deport US citizens after D.C. National Guard shooting
The administration is using the shooting, committed by a long-time CIA asset, as a pretext to strip citizenship from naturalized and native-born residents alike.
•Jacob Crosse
Death toll reaches 128 in horrific Hong Kong apartment fire
Two hundred people remain unaccounted for as emergency crews continue search, recovery and support operations in the catastrophic and preventable 43-hour fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong.
•Kevin Reed
Summary execution in the West Bank: Trump’s “peace” deal in practice
The summary execution of two Palestinians in the West Bank reveals the "peace" deal signed by Israel and sanctified by the U.N. Security Council as nothing more than an enabling act for genocide throughout all of Palestine.
•Andre Damon
“Things like this happen everywhere”: Residents of Hermosillo, Mexico speak on Waldo’s explosion
The November 1 explosion, which killed 24 people, began at an electrical transformer improperly installed inside the store.
•Our reporters
Australia: Labor-Greens deal to fast-track mining and military projects
After talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Greens helped the government ram through parliament seven “environmental” bills to speed up approvals of critical minerals and other war-related projects.
•Mike Head
Australia: Residents highlight big-business neglect of worker safety after Port Kembla steelworks death
“If it’s left to the company, it’s going to be a cover-up. Workers should lead the investigation.”
•Our reporters
Cook Islands PM condemns New Zealand’s “coercion”
Wellington’s diplomatic bullying of the Cook Islands is part of the sharpening geopolitical tensions in the Pacific region aimed at China.
•John Braddock
Rebellion begins against IG Metall union at Bosch in Germany
Growing anger over mass redundancies and wage cuts has produced an open revolt against IG Metall. At Bosch in Schwäbisch Gmünd, workers are now moving to establish their own independent organisation to defend jobs and living standards.
•Dietmar Gaisenkersting
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: 5,000 sanitation workers strike indefinitely in Jaipur; Bangladesh: Garment workers fight sudden closure of factory; Australia: Bus drivers strike in Newcastle; Tasmania’s public hospital scientists walk out for better enterprise deal.
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UK Labour government’s war on migrant workers threatens health and social care
The trade union leaders in the sector have responded only with statements of concern, moral indignation and sternly worded press releases.
•Rory Woods
Reject CWU’s Royal Mail letter writing stunt
The pre-written email piles one falsehood on another to cover up the CWU leadership’s record of betrayal.
•Tony Robson
The December 9 protest in Tanzania, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part Four
The trajectory of Tanzania under Nyerere stands as a decisive refutation of the petty-bourgeois illusion that national independence, state ownership, or Pan-African sentiment could substitute for proletarian revolution.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
European governments oppose any negotiated settlement to Ukraine war
The crisis of US imperialism is driving not only American but also European society towards a revolutionary confrontation.
•Peter Schwarz
Germany’s all-party coalition for a war budget
The German parliament is debating the 2026 federal budget this week, which raises the defence budget to €108 billion.
•Peter Schwarz
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known as H. Rap Brown in the 1960s, dies in federal prison at 82
H. Rap Brown became one of many figures associated with the civil rights struggle who attracted the attention of the FBI, then headed by the notorious racist and red-baiter J. Edgar Hoover.
•Fred Mazelis
Death toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 94, hundreds still missing
It is increasingly likely that the conflagration was caused by corruption and cost cutting measures, including the use of illegal highly flammable materials.
•Erik Long
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