1. France: public discontent with President Emmanuel Macron surges following the fall of Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s unpopular minority government. However: as a direct consequence of the bankruptcy of the NFP coalition, the political forces strengthened by Barnier’s fall are not on the left, but on the right
2. Ready to collaborate with the incoming Trump administration, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy led by Shawn Fain is moving to wrap up its bogus “Keep the Promise” campaign
3. The New York Times: voice of the American Oligarchy
4. In the wake of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson's murder, the US media awakens to the public's widespread hatred for the corporate and financial interests that control the health
insurance and health care industries
5. The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of a new, deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
6. Amnesty International formally accuses Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza:
Israeli
forces have caused unprecedented destruction, at a level and speed not
seen in any other conflict in the 21st century, leveling entire cities
and destroying critical infrastructure, agricultural land, and cultural
and religious sites, rendering large swathes of Gaza uninhabitable
7. Spying, raids, and mass deportations: Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government in the UK adopts immigration policies demanded by the far-right
8. The US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division issues a scathing report describing corruption and routine abuses of the public by the City of Memphis and the Memphis police
9. An ambassador from China tries to warn New Zealand against joining AUKUS, a security partnership led by the United States, that is escalating a drive to war against China
10. Inviting a reactionary backlash: recent federal accounts figures reveal that Australia would be in a recession if not for government spending
11. Australian Green Party leader and pseudo-leftist Adam Bandt wants to help the Labor Party's victory chances in the next election
12. What is Germany's Left Party, and what is it trying to achieve with its "Silver Locks Mission", named after three grey-haired left-wing political veterans who have right-wing ambitions?
13. A new documentary film about the life of the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl reveals dangerous parallels between the present and the years before the outbreak of the Second World War
14. A message from the Socialist Equality Party in Canada: the three-week-long strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers is a class battle that will impact all workers who share the same concerns about how their futures will be impacted as the nature of employment is being restructured
15. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
