1. Expected to be fast-tracked through the Senate before being signed by US President Joe Biden, the US House of Representatives approves the largest annual military spending bill ever

2. Diseased and dishonest tributes: President-elect and fascist Donald Trump rings the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell on the same day that Time magazine ritualistically names him as its 2024 “Person of the Year”

3. A "Network of the Future": Layoffs are leaving thousands of UPS workers jobless

4. China demonstrates that it is prepared to swiftly retaliate to growing US economic pressure against it by restricting its export of strategic materials and by initiating an anti-trust investigation against the US silicon chip maker, Nvidia

5. Germany's ruling class reacts to the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

6. Railroaders must break the divide and conquer tactics of the US rail unions that have been selling them out by trying to ram through separate agreements in a divide-and-conquer tactic

7. Part of its far-right government’s sweeping “law and order” agenda, New Zealand passes an anti-gang insignia law that chiefly targets the most vulnerable layers of society, including the Māori minority

8. Concerned about delays of weapons being exported to Israel, the US Federal Maritime Commission threatens to investigate the denial of container ships into Spain's ports

9. "Honk if your boss sucks!" Lower-level functionary UAW workers' strike against their executive leadership ends after 10 days

10. Holding a city hostage: General Motors threatens to demolish its Renaissance Center headquarters, Detroit's tallest skyscraper and a symbol of "revival," unless it gets public subsidies

11. Part of a "dirty trick?": Sri Lankan judges grant bail to four teachers accused of being members of an unlawful demonstration

12. In the aftermath of this year's APEC summit held in Peru, business executives are found to be overwhelmingly pessimistic about the future

13. With no thanks to their representative union, the state of New South Wales in Australia is given an allowance to ban a strike by passenger rail workers

14. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Ankara to smooth tensions arising from conflicting interests between Turkey and Israel over Syrian territory

15. Available in spite of widespread, deliberate censorship against all Palestinian films:  Alam is a sincere and honest film

16. Pakistan's big-business Muslim League led minority government and its US-backed military continue their brutal crackdown against supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party

17. A political campaign directed by the establishment and the media against the pseudo-leftist Haroun Bouazzi in Quebec is a fabricated controversy that serves to legitimize the very things that he is accused of criticizing

18. Keeping "everything on the table," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's "steel summit" is more about producing enough steel for war than it is about preserving workers' jobs

19. A UK Labour government white Paper “Get Britain Working” outlines plans to force millions of disabled people off of welfare and into looking for work

20. The Socialist Equality Party in the United Kingdom convenes its seventh annual congress to reassert the working class's orientation to genuine Marxism and socialist internationalism

21. At its seventh national congress, the Socialist Equality Party in the United Kingdom adopts resolutions to lead the working class through expected class battles ahead-- and the probability of an imperialist third world war

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