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!