1. Biden's gift to Trump and the meaning of "justice" in America today

2. Rather than resign, French President Emmanuel Macron searches for a new prime minister after the National Assembly gives the despised Michel Barnier government the boot

3. By limiting the export of strategic minerals, China retaliates against the latest US bans on providing it high-tech equipment and computer chips

4. Incoming US President-elect Trump's handover of government to oligarchs has no precedent in American history

5. Mexico's nominally-left president, Claudia Sheinbaum, tries to curry favor with Donald Trump by thwarting immigrants trying to get to the United States 

6. With warnings of the International Committee of the Fourth International in 1990 having gone unheeded, Namibia, finds itself today the second most unequal country in the world after South Africa

7. With a shortfall of enrollments, the University of Sheffield in England launches a targeted voluntary severance scheme to be followed by layoffs

8. Why are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers greeting Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency with whoops of joy?

9. Canada's bellicose new Arctic policy aims to strengthen its influence and military capabilities in a region that is viewed as a key front in a rapidly escalating third world war between the major powers

10. Critical to Washington's elaborate plans for war with China over Taiwan: Japan and the Philippines

11. A law enforcement manhunt is underway in New York City for the person who used a silencer-equiped handgun to kill Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the largest provider of Medicare Advantage plans

12.  Hundreds will lose jobs when Stellantis’s Opel plant in Rüsselsheim, Germany reduces production to just one shift

13. With the Teamsters, the United Auto Workers, the United Steelworkers and other unions doing nothing, the Marathon refinery in Detroit punishes striking workers by taking away their healthcare insurance

14. President Yoon Suk-yeol's attempt to impose martial law in South Korea reveals the country's autocratic foundations and strips the veil off what is routinely described as a “flourishing Asian democracy”

15. More than 1,500 artists and cultural workers sign an open letter calling on the Tate Gallery in London to sever its connections with “organizations that are deeply complicit with the Israeli regime"

16. The Socialist Equality Party in Australia calls for workers from broad backgrounds to be rapidly mobilized to defend the critical Woolworths distribution workers' strike

17. Tens of thousands of public-sector health workers in New South Wales, Australia will see a further cut to real wages after their union and the government negotiated a sell-out deal

18. The close relationship between former D.C. Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Shane Lamond and Proud Boy leader and "prolific" FBI informant Henry “Enrique” Tarrio is indicative of the relationship of police to fascist militia groups

19. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality denounces anti-democratic measures at George Mason University in Northern Virginia

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