1. An imperialist-sponsored governing council removes Haiti's unelected prime minister amid violence and social misery that has surged following IMF-imposed austerity measures and the 2010 earthquake

2. To meet the demands of the IMF, Sri Lanka’s newly-elected government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, agrees to generate a 2.8 percent primary budgetary surplus in the coming year through a combination of budget cuts and revenue raising measures

3. A warning to the entire working class: the American political establishment unites to condemn the ICC's issuing warrants for the arrests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity

4. With threats ratcheting up over the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the US makes adjustments to its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review to ensure nuclear superiority and first strike capability

5. Putting "salt in their wounds": the United States Postal Service sends out notices to 30,000 rural carriers to return $600-800 of their "overpaid" wages right before the Christmas holidays

6. A UK postal workers' union's call for "engagement" with privatization interests is a call for mail carriers to surrender their interests

7. Las Vegas, Nevada police kill a father and realtor after they respond to his call for help

8. Newly released statistics confirm that the Australian Labor government and its trade union partners are deepening the greatest reduction in working-class living conditions since the 1950s

9. Molson Coors abruptly closes two Wisconsin breweries, including one where the Teamsters isolated and betrayed striking workers last year

10. The Baltimore political establishment had been largely deaf to safety concerns that might have helped prevent two recent deaths of DPW workers

11. An unprecedented social crime: the impact and death toll from recent floods in Valencia serve as an indictment of Spain’s pseudo-left political parties that did nothing to protect the population

12. Massive autoworker job cuts announced by conglomerates in Germany even before "the ink dries" on recently negotiated worker contracts

13. Federal police in Brazil indict former President Bolsonaro and conspirators who plotted the overthrow of President Lula da Silva on January 8, 2023

14. Among pranks that the serious artist passes by or outgrows, we now have a fictitious work of art bought with fictitious wealth

15. Alabama executes a murderer by asphyxiation even though the victim's daughter believed he deserved leniency because society had failed him

16. New Zealanders protest a racist bill that will scapegoat Māoris in order to divert attention from the worsening social crisis affecting the entire working class

17. Although recent overtures by pro-capitalist Australian Greens to cooperate with the Labor government's flawed plans to address housing and environmental problems have been rebuffed, they signify the extent to which its posturing is simply opportunistic

18. Resisting privatization efforts and union betrayals, Turkish miners take matters into their own hands

19. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is dragging Britain to the point of an all-out war with Russia

20.  Largely ignored by the establishment media: a correspondent at the World Socialist Web Site reports how this year's APEC forum held in Lima, Peru sparked huge demonstrations

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