1. American democracy will reach its lowest point yet when Trump returns to the White House next week

2. The death toll of victims of the Los Angeles fires is expected to rise as search and rescue teams continue to sift through burnt out homes and other buildings; meanwhile the official response for those displaced has been extremely limited

3. Incoming US Vice President Vance expands on signals that the Trump administration is planning a massive military escalation throughout the Middle East

4. The American Historical Association passes a resolution which accuses Israel of "scholasticide" in Gaza

5. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) greets incoming US President Trump's tariff threats with alarm because it will disturb its plans to enforce reductions of global debts

6. Banned from meeting at Peradeniya University, members of the Sri Lankan IYSSE meet in Kandy to discuss the grip that the IMF has over Sri Lanka and its capitalist political parties

7.  A new funding model proposed by the Australian Labor government will result in public schools being underfunded for years to come

8. Part of a violent lurch of bourgeois politics to the right around the world, the first Kanak to lead a pro-France political party in New Caledonia is appointed as president

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

10. Workers continue their strike against a huge food and beverage conglomerate that played "Scrooge" at Christmas: the UK Princes Group

11. Students protest against the administration of Berlin's Alice Salomon University because of its support for Israel's genocide in Gaza

12. The highly acclaimed film No Other Land garners more tributes but still fails to find a distributor in the United States

13. Why a fire in a Bronx apartment building with a history of poor management should be a lesson to the working class

14. An in-network health insurance program in Massachusetts leaves 22,000 patients and their families scrambling after it denies them coverage

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