New Today -- 22 June 2018

Perspective

Trade war and the eruption of economic nationalism

As in the 1930s, the re-emergence of trade war and protectionism are accompanied by the most grotesque forms of right-wing xenophobia and authoritarianism.

News & Analysis

Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged

US immigrant detention centers are applying the techniques of Guantanamo Bay and CIA torture prisons on teenagers, and even younger children.

Right-wing smears against refugee aid workers in the Mediterranean

Hundreds rally in Pittsburgh to demand justice for unarmed teen killed by police

Trump administration plans sweeping government restructure to cut social programs

Podemos: Midwife of Spain's new PSOE government

UK Conservative government proposes tax increases on workers to fund National Health Service

Argentine unions and pseudo-left scrambling to prevent social explosion

Peruvian teachers strike in defiance of government ban

Australian Senate votes for huge tax cuts for wealthy

New Zealand nurses reject third sellout deal, prepare to strike

Defend Julian Assange!

Ecuadorian foreign minister warns that Julian Assange's political asylum is "not forever"

Watch: Workers at SEP rally in Sydney demand freedom for Julian Assange

Arts Review

Survivors Guide to Prison: The American nightmare

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa