1. Departing US President Joe Biden gives a speech defending his economic record and career in service of corporate America
2. The enormous surge in Bitcoin prices and its implications for the working class: the crypto market is, by any definition, a Ponzi scheme
3. For providing a meal to a homeless person, a Florida woman is fired from her job a week before Thanksgiving
4. The manhunt for the reactionary killer of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson ends with the arrest of Luigi Mangione in Pennsylvania
5. UnitedHealth Group, a mighty corporation scandalized by tragedy, is exposed for the systemic way it profited by denying patients the care they need
6. The purchase of a Lansing, Michigan electric vehicle battery plant leaves workers in the dark about their future
7. Mischievous graffiti and vandalism in Sydney, Australia provides the government a pretext to ramp up police powers
8. Alan Woods and the Revolutionary Communist International: pseudo-leftists that defend capitalism... and Donald Trump
9. A major blow to free speech everywhere: MIT expels a student for "offending Lockheed Martin recruiters"
10. Pro-Zionist
organizations in California file lawsuits against California teacher
unions and school districts to harass and intimidate free speech and
dissent against Israeli genocide in Gaza
11. The man who choked a homeless and mentally ill man to death on a New York City subway, Daniel Penny, is acquitted of criminally negligent homicide
12. Conclusion of a New Zealand inquiry into its government's response to COVID: public health measures... must be “balanced” against the need to
protect “the economy”
And here is a link to obtain the report
13. Political turmoil in France spills over into New Caledonia, splitting its pro-independence movement and adding to a tense political and social situation there
14. How will the UK Labour government honor its commitment to raise the country's military spending? Chancellor Rachel Reeves explains how
15. Authorities order "high-spirited" minority children not to enter Manchester, England
16. The World Socialist Web Site interviews Yvonne MacNamara about police's discrimination against Romany Gypsy and Irish Travellers children in Manchester, England
17. Bestselling novel about the "triumph and wonder" of astronauts working on the International Space Station, Orbital by Samantha Harvey, strikes a strong chord among its readers
18. Donald Trump's plan to abolish birthright citizenship repudiates a bedrock principle underlying the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution
19. After the toppling of Bashar al-Assad's regime, US and Israeli warplanes begin a massive bombing campaign in Syria
20. An Australian strategic think tank calls for a government PR campaign to entice Australian youth into military service
21. A
second online meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee on
behalf of striking Canada Post workers elicits a strong international
response
22. In Colombo, Sri Lanka, socialists discuss the political lessons of the recent US and Sri Lankan elections
23. "D. Lencho"-- Larry Moore (1948-2024), a genuine socialist
24. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
