1. Workers strike against Amazon’s refusal to bargain

2. Wall Street celebrates earnings while auto manufacturers prepare mass worker layoffs for the beginning of next year

3. Jacobin magazine publishes an interview with the “independent” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders with the aim of promoting illusions that the Democratic Party can reform American healthcare

4. An act of “perfidy” prohibited under the Geneva Conventions is hailed by the British and American media

5. The French territory of Mayotte (its poorest), in the Indian Ocean, is battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century; thousands did not go to shelters because they are undocumented immigrants

6. US House Speaker Mike Johnson loses Republican loyalties as the incoming Trump and Vance administration seeks to inflate the budgetary debt limit under Biden's watch: "If Democrats threaten to shut down the government... then CALL THEIR BLUFF”

7. Interest rate cutting at the US Federal Reserve appears to be coming to an end amid widespread uncertainty; a petulant Wall Street responds with selloffs

8. An Australian government budget assessment indicates that a reversal in the country's fortunes can worsen if the US Trump administration follows through with its tariff threat against China

9. In an attempt to head off growing interest in Marxism and socialism, 156 Democrats (including Nancy Pelosi) join 171 Republicans in the US House of Representatives in favor of a “Crucial Communism Teaching Act”

10. Canada Post workers seethe with anger after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) capitulated to the Liberal government’s strikebreaking and enforced a back-to-work order

11. The Spanish government, including its contingent of pseudo-leftists, bestow one of the country's highest awards to the fascist Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni

12. With more to come: Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government in the UK announces austerity plans that will cut thousands of civil service jobs

13. The UK Labour government targets anti-genocide National Health Service workers to discipline

14. UK Defense Secretary John Healey is seriously considering sending British troops to “work with the Ukrainians to help them motivate and mobilize more recruits”

15.  The UK National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party, Chris Marsden, delivers his opening report at its seventh national congress

16. The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee declares its opposition to the continued layoffs, school closures, and inadequate pay that public education teachers across the United States are facing

17. Opposition to the criminal militarization of German society in Berlin:  the Humboldt University Student Parliament condemns the massive spending cuts being planned at universities

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