Jan 22, 2025

1.  Both capitalist parties and the corporate media will bear full responsibility for the inevitable disaster the Trump presidency makes

2. Trump's executive orders addressing immigrants to the US: Trump has undertaken a substantial transformation of the legal landscape in the United States, eviscerated the basic rights of a significant portion of the population and upended the lives of millions of people

3. Israel has a “biblical right” to the entire West Bank? The Trump administration extends US support to Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine through the expulsion of the population of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank by Israel

4. National reconciliation? US President Trump pardons and commutes the sentences of all January 6, 2021 insurrectionists

5.  Utilizing falsehoods about the deterrent character of capital punishment and its constitutionality, and to whip up law-and-order and anti-immigrant hysteria in an effort to divide the working class and impose dictatorial rule, the US President Trump issues an executive order to dramatically expand the use of the death penalty

6. Climate change-denier US President Trump makes plans to see Los Angeles' fire devastation for himself and to meet with the state's Democratic Party governor Newsom who pledges his cooperation

7. Autoworkers from the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee host a joint meeting with autoworkers and other industries in Michigan and Pennsylvania to discuss the fight to defend jobs and the attacks against the working class being planned by the Trump administration

8. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7R calls for a strike vote at the King Soopers grocery chain in Colorado; meanwhile, 18,000 Costco workers on the US West Coast consider striking

9. The Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee in Australia calls on academics, university workers, students, and others to come to the defense of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah who has been subjected to a witch hunt by the corporate media and Zionist lobby groups

10. In a bid to win big business support, the unpopular Labor government in Australia is pouring billions of dollars into corporate subsidies

11. Germany's ruling class and leadership face a new world after Donald Trump's return to the White House: what are they to do?

12. Review: It Ends with Us is a "largely contrived and simplistic film that provides a scaffolding for current affluent middle class moral sensibilities and tastes in fashion and decor"-- some background about the film's difficult production and why vast sums of money are involved is included

13. At a demonstration held in Colombo, school development officers in Sri Lanka demand to be integrated into the state teachers’ service

14. Australian governments, mostly led by the Labor Party, together with the entire political and media establishment, have seized upon a series of murky graffiti and arson attacks to whip up an atmosphere of national hysteria, demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and crack down on civil liberties

15. The scramble for hegemony over the Arctic has now burst out into the open, with US President Donald Trump’s remarks concerning Greenland and Canada rattling governments and drawing public awareness to the critical strategic and economic significance of this region

16. Assurances agreed to in a "miraculous" contract by Volkswagen and the German automakers' union, IG Metall, are not worth the paper they were written on

17. The Oregon Nurses Association announces that it had reached an "historic" but secretive contract even as thousands of nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers continued to strike

18. World Socialist Web Site reporters listen to British health workers' job concerns as the Labour government proceeds with its attempts to privatize the National Health Service

19. Will Lehman reports on the corrupt UAW President Shawn Fain's groveling overtures to the new US Trump administration: "Fain has gone almost overnight from presenting himself as a so-called “militant,” “democratic unionist” spouting slogans like “eat the rich” and denouncing Trump as a scab, to announcing his willingness to collaborate with the most right-wing government in US history"

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