Jan 17, 2025

1. A genuine socialist's perspective on US President Joe Biden’s farewell address

2. Sam Husseini, communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, exposes the complicity of the corporate media in covering up crimes of the Biden administration over the past 15 months

 

3. Despite the announcement Wednesday by US President Joe Biden that Israel had agreed to implement a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli military is continuing its rampage throughout the Palestinian enclave

4. Among many heartbreaking consequences, the Los Angeles, Californian fires have destroyed thousands of homes leaving tens of thousands of residents without permanent shelter

5. Crap wages while the company makes billions: hundreds of workers at Daimler Trucks Detroit Axle plant in Michigan overwhelmingly vote to go on strike

6. The cruel and unnecessary deaths of illegal gold miners at Stilfontein in South Africa is a devastating indictment of bourgeois nationalism and the historical forces behind it

6. One month after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers capitulated to a strikebreaking order from the Liberal government, the ruling class, represented by Bay Street investors and big business, is intensifying its drive to destroy the postal service

7. Not unique:  New South Wales, Australian rail workers are up against a Labor government that has declared any level of industrial action to be “intolerable”

8. The impeached president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, is arrested on charges of insurrection and abuse of power

9. After taking control of a rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk demonstrates that he believes that the EU must prepare for war

10. The World Socialist Web Site reports on a rally and press conference of activists and healthcare workers in Teaneck, New Jersey who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and also interview a nurse who volunteered in Gaza

11. Emilia Pérez, an acclaimed musical, has its moments but also an implausible and meandering story with little substance

12. The union covering 205,000 active city carriers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a two-week extension to voting on a new contract—ironically, due to delivery issues with mail-in ballots

13. The Providence healthcare network in Oregon signals that it is willing to bargain with its striking workers who are vulnerable because they are isolated by union-enforced artificial divisions

14. A nurse in Britain writes to the World Socialist Web Site to rally others to fight against the Labour government's moves to plunder and privatize the National Health Service

15. The foreign minister and the defense minister of the new Syrian government, which is rooted in al-Qaeda, meet with Turkish officials in Ankara

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