New Today -- 16 August 2018

Perspective

The global implications of the Turkish lira crisis

Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, the growing intensity of economic warfare threatens to collapse the financial house of cards created by the multi-trillion-dollar bailout of the global banking system.

News & Analysis

Opposition mounts to UPS-Teamsters conspiracy as union announces contract for airline mechanics

There is growing support for the WSWS UPS Workers Newsletter's call for the election of rank-and-file committees in every warehouse and hub to coordinate opposition.

Turkish crisis hits working people

Anti-Semitism campaign against Corbyn links opposition to Israel's crimes with support for terrorism

British government's educational "reforms" exacerbate inequality, reduce school funding

Australian Daily Telegraph lawyers plead "truth defence" in Geoffrey Rush defamation case

Grand jury alleges: Hundreds of Catholic priests abused thousands of children in Pennsylvania

Firefighter casualties mount from California wildfires

A year after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, victims still face long recovery

Audit examines the decline of New York's Long Island Rail Road

Nine dead, 107 poisoned in Andean village in Peru

Right-wing senator calls for a "White Australia" immigration policy

New Zealand primary teachers hold nationwide strike

New Zealand government launches sham inquiry into Afghan war crimes

Security and the Fourth International

An "Exemplary Comrade": The Socialist Workers Party's 40-year-long cover-up of Soviet spy Sylvia Callen: Part three

Arts Review

Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman: The illogic of racialism