New Today -- 18 April 2018

Perspective

Trump and Abe meet amid war and domestic crisis

The two longstanding military alliesthe US and Japanare united in their determination to contain and confront China, but are increasingly at odds over the means for doing so.

News & Analysis

US CEO pay, bank profits, corporate cash set new records

A series of reports released over the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in record levels of wealth.

As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"

UK government rejects Corbyn's demand for parliament to vote on war

Protesters in Britain speak out against air strikes in Syria

Trudeau joins Macron in celebrating air strikes on Syria

Barcelona: Hundreds of thousands protest against jailing of Catalan independence leaders

Government crisis in the Czech Republic

Mexican government to deploy federal troops against immigrants on its southern border

Indian Stalinists at loggerheads over what right-wing course to follow

Union seeks to derail New Zealand nurses' struggle

The Class Struggle in the United States

The betrayal of the Oklahoma strike and lessons for the next stage of the teachers' revolt

Arts Review

Contemporary life, and those who make films about it (in Iran, the US, Russia, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan )

Commentary

Bombing of Syria exposes pro-war politics of France's New Anti-capitalist Party

Socialist Equality Party

"Berlin is Burning": Berlin firefighters' campaign of resistance raises political issues