New Today -- 16 August 2017

Perspective

Seventy years since the communal Partition of South Asia

The Partition was one of the great crimes of the 20th centurya crime that has shaped, or more precisely deformed, the entire subsequent history of South Asia.

News & Analysis

America's pro-Nazi president defends Charlottesville rampage

Trump's press conference tirade on Tuesday was part of a calculated attempt to develop a fascistic mass movement in the United States.

Hundreds protest proposed border wall in Mission, Texas

Exploitation, poverty, and repression threaten Haitians facing deportation from US and Canada

Farmworkers fighting deadly working conditions in Washington state

Canadian government endorses Trump's war-mongering against North Korea

UK: Salford residents speak of their safety concerns after Grenfell fire

European contaminated eggs scandal broadens

Kenyan police violently quell opposition to disputed election

Sri Lankan foreign minister resigns amid intensifying government crisis

Tamil nationalists back stepped-up police-state repression in Sri Lanka

Google Censorship

Over 1,000 sign petition to demand end to Google blacklisting of WSWS

Commentary

German politicians and media promoted the ideology on display in Charlottesville

Arts

Five musical responses to the Grenfell Tower inferno