New Today -- 4 January 2018

Perspective

Working-class opposition erupts in Iran: A harbinger for the world in 2018

The working class unrest in Iran has already upset the calculations not just of the Iranian elite, but of governments around the world.

News & Analysis

Trump threatens North Korea with nuclear war

Trump's "nuclear button" remark is aimed not just at North Korea, but any country that poses a challenge to American global hegemony.

Romanian Ford workers defiant as company seeks to impose blackmail contract

Germany's "Network Enforcement Law" goes into effect: A move to censor the Internet

Facebook deleted accounts at the behest of US, Israeli and German governments

More Britons than ever forced into homelessness due to rent increases

Deaths continue to mount amid freezing temperatures across much of the US

Australian Council of Trade Unions launches cynical campaign against casual employment

New Zealand government prepares attack on foreign students

President-elect George Weah opens Liberia for plunder

Arts Review

An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel: "A film is like a historical document, it should be solid enough to endure"

Workers Struggles

Lessons of the fight against Obama's "school reform"Part 1