New Today -- 3 September 2018

Perspective

Labor Day 2018: The growth of the class struggle and the case for rank-and-file committees

This year, Labor Day takes place amid a resurgence of class struggle in the US, bringing workers into direct conflict with the corporatist and anti-working class trade unions.

News & Analysis

Line-up of reaction and militarism at McCain memorial

Assembled in the National Cathedral were a "who's who" of imperialist war criminals, with a bloody record stretching back more than half a century.

As union seeks to wrap up strikes, Washington teachers rally and call for statewide walkout

Tens of thousands protest across Germany against neo-Nazi violence in Chemnitz

Trump hits out at China over North Korea

Washington and Tehran trade threats over the Strait of Hormuz

Amazon Nightmare: Grandmother injured on the job goes homeless, suffers pneumonia

Memorial service held for six of ten children killed in Chicago Little Village house fire

Media smears family of victims of Chicago house fire

Father of Mollie Tibbetts tells Trump administration: Stop using my daughter's death in racist attack on immigrants

Nashville's shuttering of women's health clinic leaves only one abortion facility in the city

Trump administration ends funding for Palestinian refugees

US and Japan increase efforts to undercut Chinese influence in Sri Lanka

IMF pushes for more social cuts in Ukraine

Australian government rushes to deport Vietnamese refugees

History of the Fourth International

On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International

Arts Review

Young Euro Classic 2018a display of boundless musical virtuosity and symphonic poetry