New Today -- 18 December 2017

Perspective

The United States of Inequality

As Congress rushes to pass a tax bill that will transfer trillions of dollars to the financial oligarchy, it is becoming impossible to overlook the all-pervasive scale of social inequality in the United States.

News & Analysis

Industrial carnage continues in US workplaces

A 62-year-old immigrant worker is the latest victim in a wave of industrial fatalities in the US. On-the-job injuries claim nearly 5,000 lives every year.

UPS worker killed at Atlanta hub

Hurricane Maria exposes the conditions of life for the working class in Caguas, Puerto Rico

UN rapporteur "shocked" by deep poverty in US

More sexual harassment allegations hit congressmen, media and entertainment figures

UN condemns Iraq's mass hanging of accused ISIS fighters

Right-wing extremists enter government in Austria

Families and survivors hold six-month commemoration of Grenfell Tower fire

Trade conflicts deepen at WTO meeting

Peru's President Kuczynski facing impeachment

Democrat Bottoms wins Atlanta mayoralty after recount

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

December 18-24: Peace negotiations begin at Brest-Litovsk

Commentary

Oppose media witch-hunt against "the left" over Grenfell fire

Arts Review

Dover Quartet recital offers unusual program, including works by "forgotten composers" Viktor Ullmann and Szymon Laks