1. Today's political establishment in Germany is abandoning all restraint and inhibitions about rehabilitating fascism

2. Many are asking: why did a Black Hawk military helicopter collide with American Airlines Flight 5342?

3. US Senators question President Trump's nominees for the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Director of National Intelligence

4. The Trump administration announces an executive order that would equate all criticism of Israel as antisemitic and “terroristic"

5. Knoxville, Tennessee deaths highlight how a lack of accountability for law enforcement officers fosters a culture of impunity, where excessive force becomes routine

6. Federal immigration officials conduct raids on working class neighborhoods in New York City

 Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem

7.  Taking the lead of US President Trump's "stab-in-the-back" accusations, the US Senate launches a bipartisan investigation into whether Panama has violated agreements with the United States about the Panama Canal

8. A "go-ahead" by Britain's Labour government to expand London's Heathrow airport trashes UK climate commitments

9. Danzy Senna’s best-selling novel, Colored Television, is a largely dispirited and dispiriting work, obsessed with race and personal identity

10. “Work or starve”: A Republican US Congressman suggests that instead of getting free meals under the National School Lunch Program, school-aged children should be forced to work to feed themselves

11. A large outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area continues to perplex health authorities, a full year after it began

12. 18,000 Costco workers in the Teamsters union are set to go on strike, the largest of the new year in the United States

13. A tentative agreement between the US Postal Service (USPS) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) appears to be headed for defeat

14.  Students speak up at universities across Sri Lanka against Peradeniya University’s anti-democratic limits on free speech

15.  In opposition to official “Australia Day” celebrations, tens of thousands of Australians hold "Invasion Day" rallies

16. In a public statement, the socialist Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee describes a way forward for beleaguered public psychiatric workers in Australia

17. The German parliament (the Bundestag) commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and then rolls out the red carpet for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has systematically downplayed and trivialized the Holocaust

18. The only party campaigning for a genuine socialist program in Germany, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) holds its first election rally in Stuttgart

19. The percentage of US workers belonging to unions fell one-tenth of 1 percent in 2024, reaching a new all-time low of just 9.9 percent

20.  San Francisco city resources for immigrants needing legal help

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