1. A genuine socialist perspective about California's fires and what needs to be done

2. California Governor Gavin Newsom deploys National Guard troops while fires continue to rage across huge areas

3. A Canadian perspective of climate change and weather-related events of 2024

4. Trump’s threats against Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Panama signify an ending of the capitalist post-war order, with US imperialist aggression emerging in its most naked form

5. The Lula da Silva government in Brazil marks the two year anniversary of a failed coup against it with a reactionary, deceitful, and politically cowardly event: when Lula speaks of “democracy” he is simply referring to the bourgeois electoral system and its rituals that disguise the rule of capitalism over the entire society

6. In the name of “Memory, Truth, and Justice,” hundreds protest in Argentina against President Milei's efforts to erase the record of the torture, disappearances and murder of tens of thousands of militant workers and youth in the 1970s and 80s by shutting down memorial sites

7. Hoping to provide funds for the region’s public transportation system, New York City begins a controversial urban traffic congestion pricing scheme that will impact drivers least able to afford it

8. Part One: The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference held among European colonial powers to divide Africa and why recalling it is still relevant

9. A topical exhibition in Bonn, Germany illuminates how fascism is not the result of morally corrupt individuals but arises from the profit-driven character of capitalism

10. A message to autoworkers in the UK explains how they can refuse to accept eminent cut-backs and plant closures

11. Cooperation between imperialist and regional powers in the Middle East is challenged by their conflicting relationships with ethnic Kurds

12. A strike by resort workers in Utah (that drew national attention after wealthy patrons took to social media to complain of hours-long wait times at their ski lifts) ends

13.  A drastic overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia is already eliminating assistance to thousands of disabled children  

14. An online lovefest between Elon Musk and Germany's far-right AfD political party chairwoman, Alice Weidel, should further remind the international working class of rising global fascism

15. European beneficiaries of Russian oil bicker among themselves with the ending of all Russian gas transit via Ukraine

16. The New Zealand government addresses lurid and unsubstantiated claims about Chinese and Russian “influence” by pushing through draconian legislation against “foreign interference”

17. Angelina Jolie plays the role of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas in a new film

18. A convivial conversation between oligarchs Barack Obama and Donald Trump at a funeral memorial for Jimmy Carter illustrates not only their poor manners, but also their distance from social reality

19. Railroad car-making workers of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee of Hamilton, Canada call for class unity in a statement at the World Socialist Web Site

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