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!
