New Today -- 29 September 2016

Perspective

Corbyn's capitulation to the right wing and the lessons of the UK Labour leadership contest

Corbyn's defence of the Labour Party's grip on the working class and his continued opposition to any struggle against the right wing is a vindication of the political stand taken by the Socialist Equality Party.

News & Analysis

Slowdown in growth of trade highlights global economic stagnation

Both the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund warned of an increase in protectionist measures alongside a fall in the rate of world trade growth.

US threatens Russia with end to cooperation in Syria as fighting rages in Aleppo

SPD, Left Party and Greens commence coalition talks after Berlin election

Sanders stumps for Clinton at University of New Hampshire

Police kill 30-year-old mentally ill man in El Cajon, California

Pittsburgh residents demand their water be tested for lead

Walmart to cut 7,000 back-office jobs in the US

Canadian autoworkers denounce contract sellout

After Kashmir attack, US media threaten to support India in war with Pakistan

Vienna refugee conference reaffirms Europe's closed-border policy

British Medical Association sells out struggle of UK junior doctors

Workers' strikes spreading throughout South Korea

Ex-Australian Labor minister calls for deregulation of university fees

Online Interview with David North

Large audience for interview with David North, author of A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016

Arts Review

The Chosen, on Trotsky, and other political subjects

History

New Zealand Labour Party marks its centenary