New Today -- 1 November 2016

Perspective

The 2016 US election and the crisis of the two-party system

The bitter conflict within the political establishment following FBI Director James Comey's intervention in the election has exposed the deep crisis of bourgeois rule in the US.

News & Analysis

Sectarian tensions rise in Iraq as Mosul offensive enters third week

Iraqi government troops entered the eastern outskirts of the northern Iraqi city Monday amid ongoing warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe facing its residents.

Democrats step up campaign against FBI director

Unifor announces sell-out agreement with Ford Canada

Philadelphia transit workers go on strike

India-Pakistan cross-border barrages heighten South Asia's war crisis

Mine explosion in China kills 15 workers

New York: Rikers Island prison guards found guilty in beating and cover-up

West Virginia: OxyContin maker dashes efforts to address opioid epidemic

UK: Dorset NHS management pushes health cuts amid growing opposition

New Zealand pseudo-lefts hold protests to denounce Russia

Australian poultry firm Baiada to close Victorian plant

Science

Vertebrate species populations in dramatic decline

Book Review

The political anatomy of pseudo-left war propaganda

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: the Americas