New Today -- 11 July 2016

Perspective

Race, class and police murder in America

The campaign to portray the United States as riven by racial hatred serves definite and reactionary social and political aims.

News & Analysis

Hundreds arrested in US protests against police killings

Thousands took to the streets across the United States to voice their outrage over two recent police killings of unarmed black men.

Protesters speak out on police killings

New video shows off-duty New York cop murdering motorist

Video exposes Fresno police lies in shooting death of Dylan Noble

NATO summit plans escalation against Russia in Eastern Europe, Middle East

Leadership contest launched, raising prospect of split in UK Labour Party

Coalition parties to form unstable government in Australia

UN court to deliver decision on South China Sea disputes

US and South Korea agree on THAAD anti-missile system

Five agency workers crushed to death in British scrapyard

Prison spending rises three times faster than education funding in US

New York City takes major step in privatization of public housing

European Union working with African despots to deter refugees

Mehring Books

A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 19902016

Commentary

Axel Honneth at Humboldt University: A socialism that is nothing of the sort

Arts Review

"Cinema has the potential to make us richer in spirit"filmmaker Paul Cox (19402016)