1. "Hundreds nabbed, hundreds killed, countless injured": Pakistani security forces massacre protesters in Islamabad during a state of siege

2. US President Biden's announcement of a 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has little to do with saving lives or establishing peace

3. This year’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan demonstrated the impossibility of fighting global warming within the confines of the capitalist system

4. The US FBI announces that Trump presidential nominees and appointees were targeted with bomb threats and prank "swatting" calls just before the Thanksgiving holiday

5. Becoming a part of a broader assault on civil liberties, 173 climate change protesters were arrested during an attempted blockade of the world’s largest coal exporting port in Newcastle, Australia

6. Strike of more than 1,500 determined Woolworths warehouse workers in Australia enters second week

7. Half a million workers across Italy go on a one-day nationwide strike to demonstrate against the austerity policies and deepening social inequality overseen by their fascist Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is praised by Elon Musk

8. Disregarding the needs of millions of people whose lives will be severely affected, the Alabanese Labor government rams 31 repressive pro-business bills through the Australian parliament 

9. A virtual unknown, Calin Georgescu, an avowed fascist, wins the most votes in a first round of a presidential election in Romania

10.  Iranian elites split over whether or not to "deal" with the incoming US President Donald Trump

11. Keith Locke (1944-2024), New Zealand pseudo-leftist activist and capitalist politician

12. Explained: US Senator Bernie Sanders' "trap" aimed at keeping workers and youth tied to the Democratic Party and bourgeois politics

13. President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, breaks with protocol to provide an unusual interview to the influential business newspaper, The Financial Times; she describes incoming US President Trump's tariff threats as an "awakening"

14. Vital history, from more than six decades ago: A documentary film, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, tries to tell the story about the assassination of the first president of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba

15. US Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North asks to participate in an academic seminar featuring Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous biography of the British Trotskyist Gerry Healy

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