New Today -- 24 May 2018

Perspective

Build rank-and-file committees to oppose Macron's austerity measures!

In voting to reject privatization, French rail workers are at the forefront of a struggle of the entire working class against the Macron government. This struggle requires a revolutionary perspective.

News & Analysis

Indian police kill 12 protesting industrial pollution in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu

Indian authorities have justified the killing of protesters who were demanding the closure of a smelter, owned by a billionaire Indian industrialist, that has wreaked havoc on the lives of people in southeast Tamil Nadu.

Testimony to Grenfell Fire inquiry paints devastating picture of social murder

Grenfell Tower fire: BBC Panorama reveals corporate criminality

US primaries: Military-intelligence candidates win four Democratic congressional nominations

Food and hospitality workers at Las Vegas casinos vote to strike

Video of tasing, arrest of Milwaukee Bucks basketball star sparks national outrage

Amazon providing facial recognition technology to police agencies for mass surveillance

Puerto Rican students at New York University ask to stay another semester

Trump trade deal comes under anti-China fire

German Green Party leader Joschka Fischer promotes militarism and war

CIA terrorist Posada Carriles dead at 90

The second Mexican presidential debate and the crisis of bourgeois rule

Argentina: Buenos Aires police attack striking transit workers

Joint email signals union-management partnership at Australia's Macquarie University

Arts Review

Philip Roth and the narrow framework of postwar cultural life

Commentary

War, propaganda and smears: An interview with Professor Piers Robinson

A reply to the communications director of the South Carolina Education Association