New Today -- 26 May 2018

Perspective

The Tuticorin massacre and Modi's India

The barbarity of class relations in contemporary India was laid bare in Tuesday's police massacre of protesters in Tuticorin demanding the closure of a copper smelter that has spewed toxic chemicals for decades.

News & Analysis

Fifty-one million US households cannot afford "survival budget"

Four in 10 US adults are a $400 expense away from financial ruin, and the typical employee would have to work 275 years to earn the average compensation of a top-200 CEO.

Anger grows as layoff approaches for 1,500 auto workers at Lordstown GM plant

Trump awards Medal of Honor to Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Afghanistan

Dekalb County Georgia school bus drivers continue fight for reinstatement of fired colleagues

Ruling confirms US government withheld evidence to malign J20 defendants

UK plans deployment of hundreds more troops as part of US-led Afghan build-up

Turkey's petty-bourgeois left lines up behind bourgeois pro-NATO opposition

UK: Nearly half a million young people not in receipt of minimal state support

Australian government delays by-elections for nine weeks

Australian feminists deny mental health crisis behind Margaret River murder-suicide

Sri Lankan president showers praises on the military

Commentary

Producer Harvey Weinstein surrenders to police, charged in New York City

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

SEP 2018 Election Campaign

Support the National City teachers! Defend public education!

Arts Review

Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s on view in New York City

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific