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!
