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!