1. Multiple fires in the Los Angeles, California region of the United States are not "merely" a natural disaster, but reveal a barbarous state of social relations and the total inability of capitalism to confront any social problem: from climate change to urban planning to basic water management

Image source: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

2. "...my community, it’s destroyed. It’s gutted. It’s like a bomb went off in the middle of it"

3. Doctors, nurses, and health workers hold demonstrations in Australia to protest Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in northern Gaza

4. Tens of thousands of grocery store workers in the United States are gearing up for contract battles in 2025

5. In a highly significant vote on Thursday, the majority of Democrats in the US Senate joined with their “Republican colleagues” to advance the “Laken Riley Act” which is a part of Trump’s fascistic plans to launch the “largest deportation operation” in history

6. To prevent an open conflict between dockworkers and the incoming fascist Trump administration, the International Longshoremen’s Association and the US Maritime Association betray the workers by blocking a strike that would resume five days before Trump's inauguration

7. Sri Lankan members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) receive numerous statements from around the world protesting the ban of a lecture they hoped to attend at Peradeniya University

8. Anticipating coming elections, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pitches himself as being best able to collaborate with the incoming US Trump administration

9. As an economic malaise in China deepens and becomes more prolonged, and economic conflict intensifies with the US, financial investors expect low growth and deflationary global conditions in 2025

10. School districts from coast to coast in the US announce drastic budget cuts and mass layoffs which are just a part of a systematic dismantling of public services to be sharply accelerated after Trump’s inauguration

11. Almost 5,000 nurses, certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical staff, physician associates and physicians in Oregon are set to begin a strike

12. 125,000 residents of San Diego, California, insured under Anthem Blue Cross are shocked to learn they lost all access to their insurance coverage

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