1. "Dictatorship from day one": US President-elect Donald Trump threatens to fill key political posts without the Senate's approval

2. The Biden administration implements its latest provocative escalation in the NATO proxy war against Russia despite its having been planned to follow a Kamala Harris victory in the US presidential elections

3. If it is to truly succeed, the strike of 40,000 University of California workers must become part of a broader movement of the working class in defense of good-paying jobs and of the healthcare system

4. The Berlin State government targets social spending to help pay for Germany's massive military buildup

5. Germany inaugurates a new naval base at Rostock, the most important port in former East Germany, to defend imperialist interests in the Baltic Region

6. California State University at Long Beach, upset about revelations of cooperative ties between the university, military, and industry, censures faculty for using a "microphone or megaphone at campus protests against the genocide in Gaza"

7. The highly promoted album by singer Dua Saleh "evokes the heady, insular world of two lovers who are indifferent to what’s going on outside their window"

8. South African police’s “surrender or starve” tactics in dealing with trapped illegal gold miners causes outrage

9. Turkey's government tries to appease public anger by desperately trying to hide its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza

10.  The Unite union bureaucracy in Britain is hostile to any worker fight which challenges their long-established partnership with the automaker conglomerate, Stellantis

11. A New Zealand bill ostensibly created to address racial disparities only inflames divisions and protests

12. The Albanese Labor government in Australia is determined to scapegoat overseas students, immigrants, and refugees for their country's crumbling living standards

13. What makes Canada's newly-formed pseudo-left Revolutionary Communist Party's plan to mobilize a protest against genocide so short-sighted?

14. Trump's resounding election victory in the US excites Wall Street financial oligarchs who believe he will remove all restraints from them satiating their greed

15. Sri Lanka’s opportunistic new president, Anura Dissanayak, tailors his new cabinet to better implement IMF-imposed austerity measures

16. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain goes into full damage control mode in an effort to beat back a rising tide of rank-and-file opposition to the automakers' global jobs "bloodbath"

17. An official coverup is underway after police kill a mother and her two-month-old baby in a Kansas City, Missouri suburb

18. Flagrantly ignoring public opinion, European governments overwhelmingly support the US giving provocative long-range missiles to Ukraine capable of bombing deep within Russia

19. The Socialist Equality Party will conduct a special online event this evening to discuss incoming US President Trump's new cabinet, and the restructuring of the American State

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

1. G20 summit takes place in Rio de Janeiro even as a global breakdown of the capitalist system unfolds

2. President-elect Trump confirms that he intends to use the US military to deport millions of migrants as soon as he takes office next January 20

3. The US State of Texas clears the way to execute a prisoner for a crime he never committed and recommends exoneration of another prisoner (who is also innocent)

4. Defense ministers of Australia, Japan and the United States meet in Darwin, Australia to prepare for a future military conflict with China

5. German Greens react to Trump's reelection in the US by turning further to the right

6. State of Florida leads the United States in book-banning

7. The bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines is a prelude to  savage cost-cutting throughout the global airline industry

8. A repugnant spectacle: Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, over 30-years apart in age, duke it out in Texas

9. Report exposes how an official euthanasia program in Canada, the MAiD Program, is utilized to divert the public's attention away from solving long-term problems and also targets the most vulnerable in society

10. In the wake of the UAW's betrayal of workers: the global heavy machinery giant, CNH Industrial, announces plans to close its factory in Burlington, Iowa

11. Even as their union prepares to sell them out, more than 1,500 Woolworths workers in Australia begin strikes

12. Democratic Party officials in the state of New York show that they are eager to collaborate with the incoming Trump administration

13. The Democratic Socialists of America political party, in actuality a faction of the Democratic Party, will field a candidate in New York City's mayoral election

14. Investigations are underway after a Bolsonaro supporter bombs Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court building

15. University of Michigan Central Student Government impeaches and bans student anti-genocide leaders

16.   What accounts for Aidan Beatty's obsession with Gerry Healy and today's Socialist Equality Party?

17. A Rank-and-File mail carrier for the Canada Post issues a statement calling for workers to link up across the logistics industry to make their demands effective

18. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to New South Wales, Australia public school teachers about their worsening work conditions

19. The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists condemns the racist riots that took place following the murder of a taxi driver in Korkino, Russia this past October

20. A Trotskyist organization operating in the former USSR, the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, defends the Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk

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

1. Joseph Kishore: the re-election of Donald Trump signifies the violent realignment of American politics with its underlying social reality: a society dominated by staggering inequality and ruled by a capitalist oligarchy

2. After the elections, US President Biden tries to create "facts on the ground" by giving Ukraine missiles that can strike deep into Russian territory

3. Medical realities in Gaza: Benjamin Mateus of the World Socialist Web Site interviews Bilal Irfan, who conducted health policy research there

4. WHO reports: world sees a 30-fold increase of measles infections in 2023, up to 1.3 million people

5. Socialists call upon German workers: "Break the dictatorship of the IG Metall apparatus!"

6. German law enforcement agencies and the German judiciary are notoriously “blind in the right eye": The story behind the rise of the neo-Nazi Saxon Separatists

7. Genuine socialists fighting to build a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka demand: “Repudiate all foreign debt!”

8. Mass job layoffs in France trigger protests and strikes

9. Report describes London, England as the epicenter of homelessness in Britain

 And here is a link to the report

10. A homeless University of California astrophysics professor's social media video goes viral

11. A fraudulent Australian bill will help accomplish what it claims it was written to hinder by providing more protection to the political establishment

12. Troubling questions can be asked about the official statements of Victoria, Australian Police about a firebombing of a restaurant last year

13. Breakdown of US East Coast dockworkers' contract negotiations exposes the fraud behind October's supposed “victory” declared by the  International Longshoremen’s Association

14. A pretentious top prize-winning film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Dahomey, serves only to mystify and confuse its viewers by ignoring multiple questions

15. Negotiations to resolve a Massachusetts educators' strike hit an impasse

16. Mass resignations hit Greece's pseudo-left Syriza Party after its leader resigns

17. An outstanding fighter for socialism and an expert on the counter-revolutionary role of Stalinism: Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024)

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

1.  Trump's Thursday gala, with Elon Musk and Argentinian President Javier Milei attending, was an obscene spectacle

2. 55,000 Canada Post workers walk off the job

3. Canadian Post workers speak to reporters at the World Socialist Web Site

4. Proponents of identity politics spew vitriol against the population following the 2024 US presidential election

5. UN committee report presents a devastating indictment of the Israeli war of extermination in Gaza, waged with weapons and political support from the United States

6. Media characterizations of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (whose political alliance just won a landslide victory) being a “socialist,” or a “Marxist” are all lies

7. US President-elect Trump names an authentic fascist to head the US Department of Defense

8. Private military and security contractors are put on notice that they can be held accountable after a jury rules in favor of three Abu Ghraib torture victims

9. A Canadian teenager becomes critically ill after catching the H5N1 bird flu virus

10. Part of a global "jobs massacre": General Motors to lay off an additional thousand workers

11. Workers at wealthy auto parts suppliers in Germany slated to lose their jobs to let their companies "utilize synergies" and "increase potential savings"

12. Over 10,000 nurses and midwives strike over low pay in New South Wales, Australia

13. Nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia tell World Socialist Web Site reporters why they are striking

14. Striking nurses at the University of Michigan in Chicago speak to the World Socialist Web Site: "Everything is going up except our wages"

15.  Claiming to be responsible for yearly wage gains, federal and state Labor officials and union bureaucrats in Australia are actually cutting the real wages of workers

16. Australian Albanese Labor government's short-sighted plan to ban social media use for children provokes widespread anger

17. A deadly explosion at a hazard-prone food-coloring factory in Kentucky is under investigation

18. Video game workers at a Microsoft subsidiary go on an eight-hour strike to nudge a chance to bargain over remote work and outsourcing

19. Even as the number of hate crimes grow in the US: university students in Maryland are charged for luring and brutally attacking a gay man

20. Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes who was innocent of the 7/7 tube bombings, British television will broadcast a two-part documentary to justify a shoot-to-kill policing policy now in place

21. UK to close 115 post office branches and cut thousands of jobs as part of its overall "Transformation Plan"

22. Family physicians and other health workers across Turkey protesting austerity to strike again in December

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

1. Human Rights Watch report substantiates description of Israeli retaliation for October 7, 2023 terror attack as deliberate "ethnic cleansing"

Here is a link to the report:  "Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged"

2. Underground journalists report to the World Socialist Web Site how Ukrainian are scrambling to avoid military service

3. Wall Street's speculative binge and an underlying economic reality that is more powerful than any would-be dictator president and his team

4. Striking Eaton Aerospace workers in Michigan accept a rotten UAW-negotiated deal because (as one bureaucrat described it): the workers "lacked leverage for a better offer”

5. Striking Marathon Detroit Refinery workers call for the support of other workers because they are being isolated by the Teamsters bureaucracy and federal mediators

6. Israeli filmmakers detail the impact of fascistic Jewish settlers, backed by the Israeli military, on the Palestinian city of Hebron and its population in their 2022 documentary J2L The Occupation Lab

7. The New Zealand government issues an empty apology to hundreds of thousands of people who were abused while in the care of the state and in church-run facilities

8. "No other individual could be less qualified or more inadvisable for this position": Trump nominates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services

9. Enduring violent retaliation from police and security forces, tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh continue to strike for better pay and working conditions

10. Mass layoffs at Boeing after the conclusion of its machinists' strike show the need for workers to adopt new forms of struggle to win their real demands

11. How the far-right government led by Dick Schoof and Geert Wilders has been cooperating with the fascist Israeli Netanyahu government to attack democratic rights in the Netherlands

12. US President Biden and Chinese President Xi to meet at this year's APEC summit in dictator-run Peru

13. A tumultous Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) summit will surely rank as one of the strangest international economic gatherings of recent times

14. Flim-flam "socialist" New York Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez distributes blame for the Democratic Party's 2024 election debacle, but takes no personal share of responsibility

15. Australia's School Pathways Program encourages high school students to pursue careers with weapons manufacturers

16. Thousands of residential buildings in the United Kingdom are found to be vulnerable to fire because of construction cost-cutting

17. The German IG Metall trade union promotes a new contract that heralds mass worker layoffs and wage cuts in the metal and electrical industries

18. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee makes a serious appeal to Canadian mail delivery workers

19. Readers of the World Socialist Web Site from all over the world demand freedom for the Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk!

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

1. "Exploring the transformative power of storytelling to foster understanding, empathy, and resilience-- no matter where people stand politically": union officials in the United States downplay the threat the new incoming Trump administration will pose to public education

2. US President Biden welcomes Trump back to the White House and offers to do “everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated, have what you need."

If further proof was needed of the cowardice, duplicity and political bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, this was it.

3. A popular Chicago music festival won't return in 2025 because its sponsors at Pitchfork Magazine say "corporations ruin everything"

4. With Mike Huckabee tagged to be Trump's ambassador to Israel, Israel doubles down on its brutal attacks in Lebanon and Gaza (where survivors are starving)

5. The Canadian government reinterprets law to enforce an end to work stoppages at east and west-coast ports

6. The Socialist Equality Party in Germany provides a foreward to a newly translated collection of speeches by socialist leader David North, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War

7. With a federal election advanced to February, 2025, the establishment political parties in Germany agree on deeply unpopular war and austerity policies

8. Accused of being antisemitic, Australian academics face a lawsuit for their opposition to Israeli genocide

9. In Lee, a valuable film that will inspire further investigation, Kate Winslet plays the role of an extraordinary photojournalist, Lee Miller

10. Public housing residents in Australia speak to World Socialist Web Site reporters about their fight to keep their homes

11. Nearly 40,000 University of California healthcare workers are set to strike

12. Philadelphia transit union bureaucracy defied workers' vote to strike when their contract expired

13.  Thousands in Paris, France, protesting a pro-Israel gala, are confronted by police with tear gas; Also, the mainstream media grudgingly acknowledges lies about recent anti-Israeli violence in Amsterdam, Netherlands

14. The World Socialist Web Site interviews a young and influential social media vlogger, Guy Christensen, about his experiences

 

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

1. Fascist President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration

2. US President-elect Trump's enthusiasm for tariffs  signals an end to the post-World War Two order of free trade, which will intensify conflict between nations

3. Huge job cuts at Seattle, Washington-based Boeing to be announced now that its machinists' strike is over; meanwhile Detroit automakers continue to shed jobs

4. Viral videos of children writhing in pain on the courtroom floor pressure the Nigerian government to drop treason charges against 119 defendants who protested the rising costs of living

5. Endorsing genocide: the US State Department determines that Israel is not violating international human rights law by withholding food to Gaza

6. Answers to a poll in Australia provide a glimpse into the gulf that separates popular sentiment from the militarist warmongering of the ruling class

7. The Australian Labor government attempts to pass an Orwellian Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

8. Union officials snuff planned strike of healthcare workers at the University of Michigan's hospital in Ann Arbor

9. Bullied London transport worker, David O'Sullivan, sends a message to his professional comrades in Berlin: "The fight against war and the fight against austerity are one and the same"

10. In Germany, hardly a day goes by without another automaker or supplier announcing massive job cuts

11. A political dead end: the Spanish pseudo-leftist Revolutionary Workers' Current (CRT) tries to tie workers to pro-government union bureaucracies

12. Anger mounts in Spain against the entire political establishment, including the trade union bureaucracies, following the devastating floods in Valencia

13. In Germany: why voting for the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht was not an effective protest against the growing power of the far-right AfD

14. Even as President-elect Trump plans major healthcare changes, more than 1,700 University of Illinois nurses in Chicago are set to strike over wages and staffing levels

15. 2,000 workers walk off the job in Sydney, Australia to protest the Labor government’s takeover of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union

16. Rank-and-file public transportation workers in Germany will field candidates to break the stranglehold of the government and its subservient union bureaucracies

17. To clear the way for war plans: the UK Labour government wants to move Indian Ocean migrants to St. Helena, the island where Napoleon was exiled and died

18. Unison, the main public sector trade union in Scotland, proposes a sellout agreement that local government workers should reject

19. Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Canada reports on its first public meeting

20. Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

1. In an open letter, 101 of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s staff accuse it of having a pro-Israel bias in its coverage of the Gaza war

2. Consequences of the nation-state system and the capitalist profit motive mar the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Baku, Azerbaijan

3. Dropping any pretense of pursuing a ceasefire, the Israeli regime intensifies its genocidal attacks on Palestinians while expanding its war within the Middle East 

4. In the United States, the fascist president-elect Donald Trump names loyalists, who are strongly identified with the persecution of immigrants and plans for military confrontation with China, to leading positions

5. With the threat of a government intervention looming, the Maritime Employers Association locks out dockworkers at Montreal, Canada after they overwhelmingly reject their union's sellout contract

6. Striking Massachusetts teachers defy school budget cuts and the imposition of budget shortfalls on their backs

7. Capitalists maneuver as striking auto parts workers begin to have an impact on South Korea's car industry

8. Despised European governments, especially Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government in the UK, are alerted by the election of a fascist president in the United States

9. With the UAW's help, striking Eaton Aerospace workers in Jackson, Michigan are facing defeat

10. Grounded, an especially relevant and timely new opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, is about the impact of drone warfare on a female fighter pilot

11. Coinciding with job cuts in the auto industry, PPG Industries, one of the largest paint and coating manufacturers in the world, lays off four per cent of its international workforce

12. Southern California Kaiser Permanente mental health care workers' strike enters its fourth week

13. The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee fully supports tomorrow's strike of nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia, and urges other health workers to join and expand their struggle

14. The Socialist Equality Party's streamed event “The Election Debacle and the Fight Against Dictatorship,” attracts a huge and growing audience

15. Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

Now that the US presidential election is over, what conclusions can be drawn and what must be done?

1. Following Trump's re-election as president in the United States, European elites go on alert to the possibility of an explosive escalation of the class struggle

2. To create "facts on the ground,” the Biden administration allows the deployment of US military contractors in Ukraine

3. Big Lie: As a political tool to defend fascism and the Gaza genocide, hysterical press accounts of recent Amsterdam clashes with Israeli soccer fans falsely accuse residents of antisemitism

4. The German branch of the internationalist Socialist Equality Party announces that it will stand in the early federal election after the sitting all-party coalition breaks down

5. Socialist Equality Party candidates intervening against war and austerity appeal to voters in Sri Lanka's November 14 snap election

6. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abdicates responsibility by downplaying the seriousness of the latest avian bird flu becoming a new pandemic

7. The US Department of Justice reaches a settlement with the owners of the container ship that killed six when it collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March

8. “Murderers, murderers!” Angry crowds denounce the failure of the Spanish government to protect them from recent floods that devastated Valencia

9. To augment neglected resources, Governor Newsom requests FEMA assistance to battle stubborn Southern California Mountain Fire

10. 4,500 medical technicians in Ann Arbor, Michigan plan to hold a toothless one-day strike on Tuesday, November 12

11. Union leaders in the United Kingdom sabotage an anticipated strike action by London subway workers

12. Little more than a debt swap: to confront the the threat of Trump-tariffs and the lowest economic growth rates in more than three decades, China provides a hefty fiscal stimulus to provincial governments

13. The Australian Labor government defies courts to reimpose police-state measures against immigrants, such as forcing them to wear ankle bracelets

14. Construction workers in Australia face the task of forming democratic rank-and-file organizations free of government and union bureaucrats' control

15. As a part of a wave of job cuts to boost corporate profits, Sumitomo's huge tire manufacturing plant in Tonawanda,New York surprises its 1,550 workers by abruptly closing

16. Australia's largest supermarket chains caught deceiving their customers with misleading product-pricing

17. A popular fantasy-comedy film, My Old Ass, from Canada, follows a recipe that lacks "soul power"

18. The UK Labour government abandons promises to university students by increasing tuition fees

19. Demand the freedom of political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk!