1. Trump's  top picks for his incoming administration confirm the ending of government "of, by, and for the people" in the United States

2. "Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with antisemitism"-- with exceptional courage, the prominent US artist and photographer Nan Goldin condemns both Israel and Germany for their role in the genocide in Gaza and its extension into Lebanon

3. Israel responds to arrest warrants by the ICC against its Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant by intensifying its rampage throughout the Middle East and by increasing domestic repression 

4. COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that just concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, concludes in failure

5. There should be no reason to share the establishment's optimistic illusions about President-elect Trump's replacement of Pam Bondi for former Congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for US attorney general

6. To combat a global assault on their jobs, rank-and-file autoworkers must rebel against the corrupt pro-company UAW apparatus: World Socialist Web Site reporters interview workers at the Toledo, Ohio Jeep-making complex

7. Having issues common to workers throughout all economic sectors, striking Canadian mail-delivery workers face a trade union bureaucracy more interested in isolating and strangling their demands than in solving them

8. Now at the mercy of a vindictive management, Indian Samsung workers end their 37-day strike in Tamil Nadu after the intervention of the government and trade unions

9. The strike by over 2,400 Southern California Kaiser Permanente psychologists, social workers and therapists enters its sixth week

10. Trailer manufacturer Great Dane plans to lay off 155 workers at its Danville, Pennsylvania factory after the Christmas holidays

11. Workers at the Stellantis-owned Vauxhall van manufacturing plant in the UK speak about their working conditions and prospects with reporters from the World Socialist Web Site

12. With Teamsters officials saying nothing, UPS plans to close a major facility and lay off hundreds of workers at Commerce City, Colorado

13. An Australian high school in a Sydney suburb disciplines a student for having worn a Keffiyeh scarf to a graduation event

14. Not enough room: in a revealed immigration bill proposed by the Labor government in Australia, more than 80,000 people could be sent to as-yet-unnamed third countries

15. While denouncing the former conservative government's plans to deport migrants to Rwanda, the fresh UK Labour government is nevertheless responsible for a record number of deportations: almost 10,000 people

16. Public transportation in Berlin, Germany to share brutal spending cuts as a part of state-induced austerity measures

17. Striking Australian Woolworths distribution workers speak about their oppressive working conditions to World Socialist Web Site reporters

18. Watch a recording of yesterday's special event: a discussion with the chairman of the US Socialist Equality Party and of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site , David North:

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