New Today -- 15 September 2018

Perspective

Ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers

September 15, 2008 marked a milestone in the eruption of the most far-reaching and devastating crisis of the capitalist system since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

News & Analysis

Hurricane Florence kills five in North Carolina, leaves nearly one million without power

Once again, a natural disaster has exposed the totally inadequate state of public infrastructure in the United States.

Thousands remain evacuated after gas explosions rip through three Massachusetts towns

Russia postpones Syrian offensive in Idlib as NATO threatens escalation

Andrew Cuomo defeats Cynthia Nixon in New York Democratic gubernatorial primary election

Teacher strike in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania wins broad support

United Steelworkers block strike of US steelworkers

UPS unveils $1 billion cost-cutting "transformation plan"

Ford's shakedown of Detroit over new tech campus

California: Fire exposes conditions at Oakland homeless encampment

Tory faction fight over Brexit escalates as leadership challenge to May threatened

Canada's trade unions deepen corporatist alliance with government during NAFTA talks

Australian government and Labor Party back prosecution of whistleblower who revealed Timor bugging

Indian Stalinists seek to divert discontent into an alliance with capitalist parties

New Zealand: Unite union applauds ban on migrant workers at Burger King

Commentary

New York Times goads Trump into major new war in Syria

German Social Democrats feign opposition to fascist AfD

Arts Review

Operation Finale depicts the 1960 capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

Mehring Books

Mehring Books UK publishes The Heritage We Defend 30th anniversary edition

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific