1. Perspective: the "Thompson affair" has laid bare immense, unbearable paradoxes in American society. How horribly backward and primitive this country is in so many ways!

2. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, the imperialist states and regional powers, led by the US and its proxies, are calculating how to carve up Syria

3. Fascists gather in Argentina: the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC

4. Striking Marathon Detroit Refinery workers are calling for support from workers in the auto, steel, trucking and other industries to support their three-month strike against the largest oil refiner in the United States

5. One in eight students in the New York City school system... is homeless

6. William Gropper: Artist of the People, currently showing at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, through January 5, 2025

7. Media polls suggest that the Australian Labor Party’s 2022 election slogan of a “better future” has proved to be a fraud

8. The Trudeau government reinterprets the powers of the Canada Industrial Relations Board to suppress workers’ struggles and make strikes illegal

9. "Do you fancy going to the Eastern Front?"-- students protest against military recruitment in Leipzig, Germany

Also at the World Socialist Web Site:

10. George Mason University students demand democratic rights for leaders of Students for Justice in Palestine

11. Sydney school students condemn disciplining of Palestinian pupil for wearing keffiyeh

12. Taiwan's ruling DPP retreats from endorsing South Korea's martial law

13.  University of Michigan-Dearborn signals "unprecedented" cuts and layoffs

14. More than 2,000 people hospitalized as UK faces "quad-demic" including COVID

15. Australian tunnel construction workers exposed to dangerous silica dust

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