Dec 27, 2024

1. Trump's megalomania

2. Canada Post workers need to draw lessons after their strike was sabotaged

3. Documents corroborate Israel's "war of extinction"

4. Drive for profit: US retailers sell their assets to activist investors for pennies on the dollar

5. President-elect Trump's "Border Czar" promises to build internment camps for deporting people from the United States

6. The exposure and prosecution of former President Bolsonaro's coup attempt is a "testimony to the explosive political situation in Brazil"

7. The departing Biden administration announces an official investigation into "anti-competitive" practices by the Chinese semi-conductor industry

8. Scientists investigate the novelty, fidelity, and transmission of human culture

9. Turkey's new minimum wage means that already strained workers will become poorer in real terms

10. Postal workers in the UK condemn their union's endorsement of the Labour government’s approval of a billionaire's takeover of the Royal Mail

11. Religious and sectarian minorities in Syria live in uncertainty under the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham regime; some march to protest the burning of a Christmas tree

12. Union bureaucracies in Sri Lanka oppose the demands of School Development Officer teachers and are silent about the police witch hunt against them

13. Questions are raised after two crewmen were killed and three others were injured after a Union Pacific train with hazardous cargo collided with a tractor-trailer at a rail crossing in western Texas

14. An agenda to divide the working class and divert mounting social and political discontent in reactionary nationalist directions: the Australian Labor government issues a potentially illegal decree to limit foreign students from studying in Australia

15. Attempts to seek “climate justice” through the framework of UN institutions like the International Court of Justice at the Hague prove to be a political dead end

16. Berlin, Germany's state government's stiff austerity budget meets widespread anger and protests

17. New Zealand's economic recession is the second in less than 18 months

18. Today's billionaires are not interested: unprofitable orchestras and operas in smaller US cities struggle to survive; the Syracuse Opera Company files for bankruptcy

19. More than 354,000 people in England are homeless-- an incredible one in 160 people

20. National Committee Member Tony Robson's speaks to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) about its responsibility to provide leadership to the working class in its struggle against capitalism

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