1. How the incoming Trump administration in the US is planning a social crime of historic proportions

2. Essential to his America-first, ultra-nationalistic ideological offensive and fascist incitements, Donald Trump seizes on Joe Biden’s commutation of the death penalty for 37 prisoners on federal death row to tout his bloodthirsty support for capital punishment

3. With their demands unresolved, thousands of Amazon and Starbucks workers returned to work this week after launching nationwide strikes

4. Acquitted of #MeToo charges, an Australian actor's rude experience defending his innocence is recounted in an interview with his wife

5. Australia records first increase in the rate of union membership since 2011

6. The rapid rise in rents fuels Germans' rising poverty, which is far more widespread than officially recognized

7. Israel wave of air strikes against Yemen include the main airport where the Director-General of the World Health Organization was about to board a flight

8. Questions remain after at least 38 people were killed on Christmas Day when Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashed at Aktau in Kazakhstan

9. Part One: The essential feature of the Ted Grant/Alan Woods International Marxist Tendency has been its implacable hostility to any break with Stalinism and UK Labourism, and a struggle for the independent revolutionary mobilization of the working class

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