1. With tremendous upheavals in store: No one should hold any illusion that the replacement of the Biden administration with a Trump administration will do other than continue the ruling elite's pursuit of imperialist conquest abroad

2. Defying mass popular opposition to a military escalation threatening total war with Russia, London and Paris are planning a large-scale ground intervention in Ukraine

3. Trump's promised "mass deportation operation": what is it, what does it entail, and how much would it cost?

4. The World Socialist Web Site responds to criticism from a Stanford professor who is presumed to be Trump's pick to head the National Institutes of Health

5. US presidential-elect Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Republican Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will not interfere with the incoming administration’s program of social counterrevolution

6. US Federal Reserve report: current financial markets are volatile and easy to trigger by small events; meanwhile, speculative risk-taking (including bitcoin investment) abounds despite growing worries

7. The decision by Corewell Health nurses in the Detroit area to align with the Teamsters might be described as "one step forward, two steps back"

8. As Sinn Fein's support crumbles ahead of Ireland's election this Friday, it's programs become less distinguishable from those of the coalition government it seeks to replace; Ireland is today home to right wing, anti-immigration parties

9. Savage austerity in store: the International Monetary Fund and the government of Sri Lanka conclude a deal for the country to pay back loans

10. Rail and subway workers in South Korea, risking sabotage by their unions, are planning to strike next week as they seek higher wages and an overall improvement in labor conditions

11. Frank Auerbach (1931-1934), one of the world’s leading modern painters and last survivor of the post-World War II London School of figurative art

12. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visits Fiji to negotiate stationing troops capable of helping secure the US's unchallenged economic and geostrategic dominance over the Pacific

13. San Francisco Hospitality Workers' Strike expands despite their union's effort to dissipate worker militancy by waging a series of isolated and limited walkouts

14. David North, Tom Mackaman, and Joseph Kishore wrangle with San Francisco Bay Area pseudo-leftist Steven Zeltzer to address Aidan Beatty's slanderous biography of Gerry Healy

15. The Teamsters' worthless defense of striking Canada Post workers includes helping a subsidiary of Canada Post provide scabs

16.  Five unexplained bomb scares in the UK are being used to fuel a hysterical anti-Russian atmosphere

17. A widely publicized online petition calling for a general election in Britain is a right-wing political initiative

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