Dec 21, 2024

1. Elon Musk, ignoramus and world's richest man, champions fascists around the world

2. Forewarned: leading representatives of NATO and the imperialist powers now openly demand the complete militarization of society and the establishment of a war economy at the expense of the democratic and social rights of the working class

3. A lopsided bi-partisan budget resolution passes in the US House of Representatives after Elon Musk, ignoramus and the world's richest man, tweets on his X

4. Liz Cheney in the crosshairs: US President-elect Donald Trump lays the groundwork to prosecute his political enemies upon his return

5. We Were Dangerous, a film depicting an example of widespread, sanctioned abuse of institutionalized children in New Zealand, tells an unconvincing story that conforms with the requirements of identity politics

6. Resistance must be organized against IG Metall and the Volkswagen works council who completely capitulated to the profit interests of Volkswagen shareholders by agreeing to cut 35,000 jobs in Germany and reduce wages by billions of euros

7. With heavy rain expected, catastrophic Israeli airstrikes continue to target Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza

8. The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil exposes the critical role played by the military in the country's January 8, 2023 coup attempt

9. Boos greet French President Emmanuel Macron's arrival in the Indian Ocean department of Mayotte where 60,000 people are feared to be dead

10. A product of four decades of ruthless austerity for public spending and attacks on worker rights, combined with massive subsidies and tax breaks for corporations: the income gap between high-earning and low-earning households in Canada reaches a record level

11. On the pretext that it will cause “significant economic harm,” the New South Wales, Australia Labor government resorts to every mechanism at its disposal to prevent any strike action by passenger rail workers

12. More than 5,500 Staten Island, New York Amazon workers join other Amazon workers in a historic strike

13. After nearly 20 years of incarceration, surviving members of the infamous "Bali Nine," charged for drug smuggling, are returned to Australia from Indonesia; the circumstances behind their incarceration are still largely ignored

14. A "fresh start" or a betrayal? Bureaucrats of the Communication Workers Union announce an acord with the billionaire trying to take over the UK's Royal Mail

15. Socialists and unionists in Turkey are arrested and accused of being terrorists; evidence of their crime? photos of picnics, summer schools, and drinking tea at a cultural center

16. The Workers’ Action Committee Collective (CWAC) in Sri Lanka meets online to discuss the defense of School Development Officers and how to fight the ongoing police persecution of activists who defend them

17. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting to address the government's imposition of IMF austerity measures on Sri Lanka

18. “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party”: an introductory speech by Assistant National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the UK, Tom Scripps

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