1. Perspective: how the holiday season in the United States is being accompanied by a season of worker struggle

2. At year's end, two related major issues loom over the world's economy

3. In a Law and Disorder podcast, the World Socialist Web Site writer Patrick Martin explains how the corporate media has been working to normalize Trump and his cabinet nominees in advance of 2025

4. Suppressing an effective struggle: in the Amazon workers' strike, the Teamsters union calls out only a fraction of the workers they represent

5. Since the Canadian government imposed a strike ban, Canadian postal workers contact the World Socialist Web Site to describe the failure of their union to help them

6. By embracing Syria's new leadership and a former enemy, Turkey's ambassador jockeys for influence vis-a-vis larger imperialist powers

7. Anti-war demonstrators rally in France and Germany

8. Slightly less than in the previous year: the US Department of Labor reports that only 5,283 workers were killed on the job in 2024

9. Israel attempts to punish Ireland for its defense of rulings against it by the International Court of Justice

10. A surge of opposition to traditional bourgeois-nationalist ruling parties contributed to a first-time electoral victory of an opposition party in Botswana

11. Take back the Panama Canal? Take control of Greenland? US President-elect Trump's hankering for Lebensraum

12. UK Labour government stymied by US President-elect Donald Trump's agenda for dealing with China

13. The musical talents and generally humane outlook of Andrew Bird showcased at his seasonal Gezelligheid concert series held in Chicago

14. In Peru where an arrogant education minister called dissidents "rats" undeserving of human rights, its president unveils a multi-million-dollar militaristic “strategic plan”

15. Exposed: Maersk, a major shipping and logistics company, has transported millions of pounds of military equipment to the Israel Defense Forces from the United States

16. The German Federal Election Commission uses a technicality to bar the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, a pseudo-left Maoist organization, from participating in the planned February election

17. The Australian Labor government acknowledges the latest surge of COVID-19, but adheres to its homicidal “let it rip” policies

18. Found guilty of “corruption” and “influence peddling”: former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to a three-year jail term

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