New Today -- 9 March 2018

Perspective

The condition of working-class women on International Women's Day

The #MeToo movement, with its demand for greater diversity in boardrooms and movie studios, has ignored the disastrous social conditions facing the great majority of the world's women.

News & Analysis

Trump, risking trade war, signs off on steel and aluminium tariffs

Trump's tariff announcement expresses the turn by the United States to the types of protectionist measures that characterised the 1930s Great Depression.

As teacher struggles spread, unions redouble effort to suppress class struggle

Jersey City teachers poised to strike

Striking Illinois grad students speak out against attacks on higher education

Trump accepts North Korean offer of talks, on US terms

Anger mounts over video of police beating unarmed man in North Carolina

Democrats embrace major cut in corporate taxes

Mental health crisis descends on Puerto Rico's working class

Money paid to college basketball players reveals the profit greed of the NCAA

Turkish government escalates crackdown on opposition as toll of Afrin invasion mounts

Israel imprisons Eritrean asylum seekers who refuse deportation orders

French ruling class promotes memoirs of neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen

Corbyn opposes Momentum leader Jon Lansman's bid for Labour's general secretary post

Dozens of fatalities during European cold snap

Commentary

The CIA Democrats: Part three

Jacobin, International Socialist Organization claim "victory" in West Virginia teachers sellout

Arts Review

Armando Iannucci'sThe Death of Stalin: A fatally ill-conceived "black comedy"

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa