1. A genuine socialist's perspective on US President Joe Biden’s farewell address

2. Sam Husseini, communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, exposes the complicity of the corporate media in covering up crimes of the Biden administration over the past 15 months

 

3. Despite the announcement Wednesday by US President Joe Biden that Israel had agreed to implement a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli military is continuing its rampage throughout the Palestinian enclave

4. Among many heartbreaking consequences, the Los Angeles, Californian fires have destroyed thousands of homes leaving tens of thousands of residents without permanent shelter

5. Crap wages while the company makes billions: hundreds of workers at Daimler Trucks Detroit Axle plant in Michigan overwhelmingly vote to go on strike

6. The cruel and unnecessary deaths of illegal gold miners at Stilfontein in South Africa is a devastating indictment of bourgeois nationalism and the historical forces behind it

6. One month after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers capitulated to a strikebreaking order from the Liberal government, the ruling class, represented by Bay Street investors and big business, is intensifying its drive to destroy the postal service

7. Not unique:  New South Wales, Australian rail workers are up against a Labor government that has declared any level of industrial action to be “intolerable”

8. The impeached president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, is arrested on charges of insurrection and abuse of power

9. After taking control of a rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk demonstrates that he believes that the EU must prepare for war

10. The World Socialist Web Site reports on a rally and press conference of activists and healthcare workers in Teaneck, New Jersey who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and also interview a nurse who volunteered in Gaza

11. Emilia Pérez, an acclaimed musical, has its moments but also an implausible and meandering story with little substance

12. The union covering 205,000 active city carriers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a two-week extension to voting on a new contract—ironically, due to delivery issues with mail-in ballots

13. The Providence healthcare network in Oregon signals that it is willing to bargain with its striking workers who are vulnerable because they are isolated by union-enforced artificial divisions

14. A nurse in Britain writes to the World Socialist Web Site to rally others to fight against the Labour government's moves to plunder and privatize the National Health Service

15. The foreign minister and the defense minister of the new Syrian government, which is rooted in al-Qaeda, meet with Turkish officials in Ankara

16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. The White House has sought to claim that a “ceasefire” is Biden’s legacy. No, his legacy is sponsorship of the Gaza genocide, and turning over the White House to a fascist who will only further intensify the imperialist bloodbath throughout the Middle East and around the world

2. The US Congress is likely to confirm Pete Hegseth as Trump's defense secretary: a man who openly advocates the commission of war crimes and the use of the military against political opponents

3. Trump loyalist Pam Bondi follows form but avoids providing straight answers to questions she is asked at her confirmation hearing to become the US attorney general

4. Contract negotiations continue for Colorado grocery workers who are bearing the cost of the Kroger grocery chain's failed merger with Albertson's

5. Workers affected by the Los Angeles fires speak about their experiences with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site

6. Determined to implement austerity measures demanded by the IMF, the Sri Lankan government intensifies its police-state repression of school development officers who have been campaigning for integration into the country’s teacher service

7. Belmont Music Publishers vows to provide digital versions of composer Arnold Schoenberg's works after his complete musical and personal archive are destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire in California

8. Fractionally cooler than 2019: 2024 was Australia’s second hottest year on record since national observations began in 1910

9. Residents of high-rise public housing projects in suburb communities of Melbourne, Australia are being pressured by a glossy ad campaign to allow developers to relocate them

10. The only political party that openly states that social cuts and war cannot be stopped without overcoming capitalism, the Socialist Equality Party (the SGP), surmounts obstacles to be included in Germany's upcoming elections

11. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Special Counsel's 137-page report: the man set to be inaugurated as US president in five days is manifestly guilty of the gravest assault on the US Constitution and American democracy since the Civil War

2. Biden boasts that America's adversaries and competitors are weaker after his presidency

3. Donald Trump's plans to eliminate birthright citizenship would produce harrowing scenes without historical precedent

4. The scope of the destruction of fires in the Los Angeles, California area has surpassed any natural disaster in recent US history, including Hurricane Katrina

5. Pseudo-left Labor Notes and the Democratic Socialists of America support a betrayal, which will pave the way to huge job losses, of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers by the International Longshoremen’s Association

6. At his Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats avoid labeling Trump's fascist secretary of defense nominee, Pete Hegseth, a “fascist”

6. The World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees call on Daimler Truck Detroit Axle workers to vote for a strike today

7. An unprecedented act of defiance: 220 staff specialist psychiatrists in New South Wales, Australian public hospitals tender their resignations

8. As part of efforts to integrate the Southeast Asian nations into Tokyo’s preparations for a catastrophic US-led war against China, Indonesia and Japan pledge to deepen their defense and economic relations

9. Experts warn that the unfolding destruction of the LA fires could be replicated in Australia

10. “Sorry your loved one died, best we can do is a hot meal” was the holiday greeting Impact Plastics’ management chose to send last month to the families of the workers who perished in the catastrophic flooding at their plant during Hurricane Helene

11. Having already experienced the highest confirmed death rate and excess mortality rate from COVID-19 in the world, Peru and Bolivia are now dealing with a new surge of the disease

12. The outgoing Biden administration announces tiered regulations aimed at trying to control the global development and use of advanced computer chips employed in the development of artificial intelligence (AI)

13. Ahead of German federal elections, political alliance leader Sahra Wagenknecht promotes reaction, national chauvinism, and independence from the United States

14. An excellent British dramatic series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, takes a serious look at the Protestant Reformation and the historical figure, Thomas Cromwell

15. Almost 400 police departments in New Jersey paid more than $1 million to Street Cop Training, a private police-training company that promoted  "dangerous, improper and likely illegal policing tactics”

16. The African National Congress (ANC) government of South Africa is responsible for the deaths of over 100 miners who were deliberately starved to death; more miners remain underground

17. With the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as US President, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government in Britain is being pressured to spend more on its military and NATO

18. To reduce government borrowing costs, the UK Labour government promise to implement only the most minor tax changes, meaning it must squeeze social services like health and education

19. "Quad-demic":  simultaneous surges in flu, COVID-19, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) strain Britain's already overburdened healthcare service

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. The genocide in Gaza and what new data reveals

2. The retiring US Biden administration sparks outrage by rounding up immigrants for deportation with an operation called "Return to Sender" 

3. Blaming California Democrats for its devastating fires, US Republicans threaten to withhold financial aid from it

4. 22 short films by 22 Palestinian directors that "defy the odds against making art under nearly impossible conditions": From Ground Zero, Stories from Gaza

5. US determination to ban TikTok or take control of it is undemocratic, unhinged, and hypocritical

6. University of Peradeniya's "circumscribed culture of critical inquiry and intellectual engagement"

7. BNSF, the freight railroad owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, has unilaterally reduced workers’ ability to use time off

8. Part Three: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

9. Autoworkers can fight the corrupt UAW union's attempt to divide them by expanding their independence by building up their Rank-and-File Committee

10. The first major strike of 2025 in the US: over 5,000 nurses, doctors and midwives protest poor working conditions and benefits at multiple hospitals and clinics across the state of Oregon

11. In advance of federal elections to be held in May (if not sooner), the establishment political parties in Australia find themselves in big trouble

12. The New South Wales, Australia state-owned inter-city rail service is docking the pay of rail workers who participate in industrial action as part of a months-long enterprise bargaining dispute

13. Financial markets and corporate media clamor for Brazil to follow Argentina's fascistic economic model by deregulating business, cutting social programs, and repressing protests

14. Rather than being contained by sound scientific measures, respiratory viruses on a rapidly accelerating trajectory in the US, Europe and China are being met with "let it rip" governmental policies

15. The government in New Zealand erodes protections for workers by announcing new policies making it harder for workers to strike

16. The Canadian government's cowardly response to Donald Trump's tariff threats

17. In Britain, the Reform UK party is not the antidote to the unpopular Labour Party

18. Germans seek answers to the questions they have about war and austerity in advance of the February German election

19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. American democracy will reach its lowest point yet when Trump returns to the White House next week

2. The death toll of victims of the Los Angeles fires is expected to rise as search and rescue teams continue to sift through burnt out homes and other buildings; meanwhile the official response for those displaced has been extremely limited

3. Incoming US Vice President Vance expands on signals that the Trump administration is planning a massive military escalation throughout the Middle East

4. The American Historical Association passes a resolution which accuses Israel of "scholasticide" in Gaza

5. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) greets incoming US President Trump's tariff threats with alarm because it will disturb its plans to enforce reductions of global debts

6. Banned from meeting at Peradeniya University, members of the Sri Lankan IYSSE meet in Kandy to discuss the grip that the IMF has over Sri Lanka and its capitalist political parties

7.  A new funding model proposed by the Australian Labor government will result in public schools being underfunded for years to come

8. Part of a violent lurch of bourgeois politics to the right around the world, the first Kanak to lead a pro-France political party in New Caledonia is appointed as president

9. Part Two: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

10. Workers continue their strike against a huge food and beverage conglomerate that played "Scrooge" at Christmas: the UK Princes Group

11. Students protest against the administration of Berlin's Alice Salomon University because of its support for Israel's genocide in Gaza

12. The highly acclaimed film No Other Land garners more tributes but still fails to find a distributor in the United States

13. Why a fire in a Bronx apartment building with a history of poor management should be a lesson to the working class

14. An in-network health insurance program in Massachusetts leaves 22,000 patients and their families scrambling after it denies them coverage

15. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. A genuine socialist perspective about California's fires and what needs to be done

2. California Governor Gavin Newsom deploys National Guard troops while fires continue to rage across huge areas

3. A Canadian perspective of climate change and weather-related events of 2024

4. Trump’s threats against Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Panama signify an ending of the capitalist post-war order, with US imperialist aggression emerging in its most naked form

5. The Lula da Silva government in Brazil marks the two year anniversary of a failed coup against it with a reactionary, deceitful, and politically cowardly event: when Lula speaks of “democracy” he is simply referring to the bourgeois electoral system and its rituals that disguise the rule of capitalism over the entire society

6. In the name of “Memory, Truth, and Justice,” hundreds protest in Argentina against President Milei's efforts to erase the record of the torture, disappearances and murder of tens of thousands of militant workers and youth in the 1970s and 80s by shutting down memorial sites

7. Hoping to provide funds for the region’s public transportation system, New York City begins a controversial urban traffic congestion pricing scheme that will impact drivers least able to afford it

8. Part One: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

9. A topical exhibition in Bonn, Germany illuminates how fascism is not the result of morally corrupt individuals but arises from the profit-driven character of capitalism

10. A message to autoworkers in the UK explains how they can refuse to accept eminent cut-backs and plant closures

11. Cooperation between imperialist and regional powers in the Middle East is challenged by their conflicting relationships with ethnic Kurds

12. A strike by resort workers in Utah (that drew national attention after wealthy patrons took to social media to complain of hours-long wait times at their ski lifts) ends

13.  A drastic overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia is already eliminating assistance to thousands of disabled children  

14. An online lovefest between Elon Musk and Germany's far-right AfD political party chairwoman, Alice Weidel, should further remind the international working class of rising global fascism

15. European beneficiaries of Russian oil bicker among themselves with the ending of all Russian gas transit via Ukraine

16. The New Zealand government addresses lurid and unsubstantiated claims about Chinese and Russian “influence” by pushing through draconian legislation against “foreign interference”

17. Angelina Jolie plays the role of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas in a new film

18. A convivial conversation between oligarchs Barack Obama and Donald Trump at a funeral memorial for Jimmy Carter illustrates not only their poor manners, but also their distance from social reality

19. Railroad car-making workers of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee of Hamilton, Canada call for class unity in a statement at the World Socialist Web Site

20. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Multiple fires in the Los Angeles, California region of the United States are not "merely" a natural disaster, but reveal a barbarous state of social relations and the total inability of capitalism to confront any social problem: from climate change to urban planning to basic water management

Image source: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

2. "...my community, it’s destroyed. It’s gutted. It’s like a bomb went off in the middle of it"

3. Doctors, nurses, and health workers hold demonstrations in Australia to protest Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in northern Gaza

4. Tens of thousands of grocery store workers in the United States are gearing up for contract battles in 2025

5. In a highly significant vote on Thursday, the majority of Democrats in the US Senate joined with their “Republican colleagues” to advance the “Laken Riley Act” which is a part of Trump’s fascistic plans to launch the “largest deportation operation” in history

6. To prevent an open conflict between dockworkers and the incoming fascist Trump administration, the International Longshoremen’s Association and the US Maritime Association betray the workers by blocking a strike that would resume five days before Trump's inauguration

7. Sri Lankan members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) receive numerous statements from around the world protesting the ban of a lecture they hoped to attend at Peradeniya University

8. Anticipating coming elections, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pitches himself as being best able to collaborate with the incoming US Trump administration

9. As an economic malaise in China deepens and becomes more prolonged, and economic conflict intensifies with the US, financial investors expect low growth and deflationary global conditions in 2025

10. School districts from coast to coast in the US announce drastic budget cuts and mass layoffs which are just a part of a systematic dismantling of public services to be sharply accelerated after Trump’s inauguration

11. Almost 5,000 nurses, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical staff, physician associates and physicians in Oregon are set to begin a strike

12. 125,000 residents of San Diego, California, insured under Anthem Blue Cross are shocked to learn they lost all access to their insurance coverage

13. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. Climate-fueled fires put millions of lives at risk in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area

2. Like the devastation caused by flooding from Hurricane Helene last year, the devastation caused by fires in the Los Angeles metropolitan area is an indictment of the entire social and economic order in the United States

3. A statement from US IYSSE members: "Students and youth in Sri Lanka have the right to free speech and to hear a socialist perspective"

4. Did Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka ban a public meeting because the SEP and its IYSSE student organization were alone in warning the county of the danger of appeasing the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?

5. Can "good things happen" if New York City elects Zohran Mamdani to be mayor?

6. Realpolitik, not the defense of international law, guides the response of European leaders to Donald Trump's latest threats

7. How operatives from the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative Party helped obstruct a rank-and-file rebellion from the union that would sell out Australian warehouse workers in their strike last year

8. The wave of tributes for the recently deceased 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, conceal his right-wing legacy

9. Germany's Federal Interior Minister doubles down on her threats to deport thousands of Syrians living in Germany

10. Part Two: the World Socialist Web Site interviews a distinguished film historian and retired San Francisco State University professor, Joseph McBride, about his new book, George Cukor’s People-- Acting for a Master Director

11. A human rights organization documents record numbers of migrants dying on their perilous journeys to Europe seeking better lives

12. Claiming that it is pursuing "reform", the UK Labour government will eviscerate the National Health Service by partnering with the profit-seeking private sector

13. Why is the Palestinian Authority banning Al Jazeera from reporting events in the West Bank?

14. The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu is still in shock from its 7.3 earthquake last month

15. Reports are surfacing of many people, including children, being crushed to death, trying to access charity at separate events in Nigeria

16. Job losses and retail store closings mushroom in the United Kingdom

17. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America”: after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump dispenses with traditional altruistic and defensive US foreign policy pretenses to reveal his true objectives

2. A report from underground Ukrainian journalists: because of many frontline desertions, many in Ukraine today have been fascinated by the rapid collapse of the army of Bashar al-Assad in Syria-- while it was officially praised in Ukraine, some believe that Zelensky will meet a similar fate as Syria's leader

3. European diplomats visiting Syria demand that Russia abandon its military bases there

4. A strike by workers at a ski resort in Utah highlights the staggering inequality in America

5. Who is Pierre Poilievre, presumed to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's Prime Minister?

6. A new book about the Hollywood director George Cukor and his protegees is reviewed at the World Socialist Web Site

7. Part One: the World Socialist Web Site interviews a distinguished film historian and retired San Francisco State University professor, Joseph McBride, about his new book, George Cukor’s People-- Acting for a Master Director

8. Incomplete evidence suggests that the Green Beret who detonated a Tesla Truck in Las Vegas was radicalized and suffered depression as a result of his central role in perpetrating atrocities while deployed in Afghanistan

9. Despite an incoming Trump administration determined to fully dismantle a threadbare public health infrastructure and the corporate media and political establishment ignoring experts' warnings: the first human death in the United States caused by the H5N1 "bird flu" virus is a significant historical event

10. Today, Australia is unable to cope with its rising homelessness

11. A possibility of renewed strike action is raised after talks resume between the US Maritime Association and the International Longshoremen’s Association over the labor agreement covering over 40,000 dockworkers on the US East and Gulf Coasts

12. Incoming US President Trump describes media reports that say he will pare back his nonsensical tariff plans as "fake news"

13. Over 64 million people in the US were placed under various states of emergency due to Winter Storm Blair

14. A disability support worker from South Australia describes why a change in work benefits is a major attack against community and disability support workers and the care they provide their patients

15. Green Party candidate for Chancellor in Germany's upcoming election, Robert Habeck, is positioning himself as the most aggressive warmonger

16. International members of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee report on their online meeting held this past Sunday to discuss events taking place in Britain

17. Turkish physicians and health workers begin their planned five-day strike against hated government requirements

18. Imminent bankruptcy due to a collapse of government funding threatens special-needs education in the United Kingdom

19. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. The US Democrats’ groveling response to Trump’s election victory and return to Washington, DC

2. Healthcare workers from around the world take part in a global vigil to draw attention to Israel’s crimes against humanity in Gaza

3. Plans surface for a new US "war on terror" as part of incoming President Trump's vow to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations

4. Bolivia’s ruling party, the pseudo-leftist Movement Toward Socialism, enters the election year of 2025 deeply divided about how to confront multiple challenges

5. New Zealand's political and media establishment glorify a Maori whose leadership rested on promoting identity politics and division above promoting working class solidarity

6. Ko Wen-je, the founder and then chair of the Taiwan People’s Party and a former presidential candidate, is arrested and charged for having taken bribes

7. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government breaks its promises to help women redeem pension money they were denied

8. South Korean investigators apply for an extension of the arrest warrant that was issued to President Yoon Suk-yeol who was impeached for his attempt to impose martial law

9. The United States records its first death resulting from infection with the H5N1 “bird flu” virus

10. All signs now point to the formation of a government in Austria led by the far-right Freedom Party

11. Students, academics and media activists in Sri Lanka denounce the cancelling of an IYSSE-endorsed lecture at the University of Peradeniya

12. Police-state consequences begin after the Interior Minister for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia criminalizes criticism of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the German federal government’s war policy

13. University of Michigan student leaders lose their positions after playing into the hands of Democratic Party-influenced school administrators who wanted to intimidate students and workers opposing the genocide in Gaza

14. Oklahoma Governor's “Classrooms to Careers” initiative would require students to have plans to go to college, work, or join the military, if they want to graduate

15. Justin Trudeau announces that he will step down as Canada’s prime minister

16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!