1. The US Democrats’ groveling response to Trump’s election victory and return to Washington, DC
2. Healthcare workers from around the world take part in a global vigil to draw attention to Israel’s crimes against humanity in Gaza
3. Plans surface for a new US "war on terror" as part of incoming President Trump's vow to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations
4. Bolivia’s ruling party, the pseudo-leftist Movement Toward Socialism, enters the election year of 2025 deeply divided about how to confront multiple challenges
5. New Zealand's political and media establishment glorify a Maori whose leadership rested on promoting identity politics and division above promoting working class solidarity
6. Ko Wen-je, the founder and then chair of the Taiwan People’s Party and a former presidential candidate, is arrested and charged for having taken bribes
7. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government breaks its promises to help women redeem pension money they were denied
8. South Korean investigators apply for an extension of the arrest warrant that was issued to President Yoon Suk-yeol who was impeached for his attempt to impose martial law
9. The United States records its first death resulting from infection with the H5N1 “bird flu” virus
10. All signs now point to the formation of a government in Austria led by the far-right Freedom Party
11. Students, academics and media activists in Sri Lanka denounce the cancelling of an IYSSE-endorsed lecture at the University of Peradeniya
12. Police-state consequences begin after the Interior Minister for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia criminalizes criticism of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the German federal government’s war policy
13. University of Michigan student leaders lose their positions after playing into the hands of Democratic Party-influenced school administrators who wanted to intimidate students and workers opposing the genocide in Gaza
14. Oklahoma Governor's “Classrooms to Careers” initiative would require students to have plans to go to college, work, or join the military, if they want to graduate
15. Justin Trudeau announces that he will step down as Canada’s prime minister
16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
