Dec 16, 2024

1. In the United States, Elon Musk's personal fortune embodies the fusion of oligarchy and the government

2. Calls are growing for a mass mobilization of the working class to defend Canadian postal workers and their right to strike

3. An overview of the reactionary, imperialist-led carve up of Syria

4. Report: The average house in England is affordable for only the richest 10 percent of households

5. The late release of a US Department of Justice report about the failed January 6 coup in Washington, DC speaks to the ongoing coverup by both capitalist parties and the complicity by sections of the military and intelligence establishment in the event

6. Amid daily public demonstrations, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will now act as South Korea's acting president, after Yoon Suk-yeol was impeached and suspended from office

7. Australia’s dropping unemployment rate masks economic fragility and a fall in working-class living standards

8. By abandoning diversity statements and by firing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administrator, the Democratic Party-controlled Board of Regents at the University of Michigan seeks to accommodate the incoming fascistic Trump administration

9. Part One: A bi-partisan House Select Committee issues a report  that misrepresents and dismisses the massive accumulated evidence that COVID-19 had a natural origin

And here is a link to that report

10. A well-attended general assembly of students at Humboldt University in Berlin resolves to unite against right-wing and fascistic influences

11. Argentinian President Javier Milei's purported "economic miracle" delights billionaires, financial, and media establishments

12. Ken Burns' documentary, Leonardo da Vinci, provides optimism to socialists

13. A new political party alliance in Germany (the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance) is eager to collaborate with major parties to implement austerity measures

14. The union representing mail delivery workers in the UK paves the way for a takeover of Royal Mail by a billionaire and his private equity firm

15. Socialist Tom Scripps delivers a speech asserting the need for everyone to redouble their efforts to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk, a political prisoner in Ukraine

16. The Socialist Equality Party in the UK issues a detailed statement in defense of the Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk

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