New Today -- 22 November 2017

Perspective

Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results

Remarks by the executive chairman of Google's parent company about efforts to "de-rank" news sites critical of the US government expose the corporate-government conspiracy to block oppositional voices on the Internet.

News & Analysis

Robert Mugabe resigns as president of Zimbabwe

Mugabe's resignation is the result of a palace coup with political and economic aims dictated by bourgeois forces no less corrupt than Mugabe.

US-backed Saudi blockade deprives 2.5 million Yemenis of clean water

Trump administration ends temporary residency for 60,000 Haitian nationals

Federal judge blocks Trump administration's attack on "sanctuary cities"

Latest in sexual misconduct purge: Ultra-rightist "tips off" media about Rep. John Conyers

Workers killed in upstate New York

Twelve-year-old boy dies in Detroit area fire

France arranges Hariri's return to Lebanon amid danger of regional war

Besieged Australian government postpones parliament

New Zealand: Wellington rail workers hold 24-hour strike

IYSSE

Christian Democratic student association calls for the banning of the IYSSE at German universities

Arts Review

75 years since the release of Hollywood classic Casablanca

Commentary

The Guardian's George Monbiot joins "fake news" campaign

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Nikolai Muralov (1877-1937)

Google Censorship

Sri Lankan students and workers oppose Google censorship of the WSWS

Socialist Equality Party

Meeting of Grenfell Fire Forum in London on December 9