New Today -- 28 September 2018

Perspective

After a decade of falling pay US Federal Reserve acts to stop "wage inflation"

The central bank executives understand that investors tend to make far more money when the sword of mass unemployment hangs over workers' heads.

News & Analysis

The Kavanaugh hearing: A spectacle of political filth and reaction

The Democratic Party has decided to wage its opposition to the reactionary Supreme Court nominee on the most degraded and right-wing basis possible.

US wars claim soaring civilian casualties in Yemen and Afghanistan

Congress readies band-aid measure for opioid crisis

Argentina's Macri responds to fourth general strike with yet another IMF package

Airline workers launch largest strike in Ryanair's history

German Chancellor Merkel loses closest ally

German government agrees to arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia, fuelling war in Yemen

Turkish president visits Berlin as US-European conflict in Middle East rises

Vote "yes" on resolution to force out Royal College of Nursing leadership! Build rank-and-file committees!

Victors Care brings class-based medical care to University of Michigan hospital

Michigan governor announces end to roads standoff as operating engineers union capitulates

United Steelworkers union claims it is preparing to strike ArcelorMittal

New York police officers caught running prostitution ring

New Census Bureau report details poor conditions in New York's Public Housing

BJP government pushes Air India into financial morass to hasten privatization

Australian unions enforce low pay for pathology workers

History of the Fourth International

David North warmly welcomed on his arrival in Sri Lanka

The RCL/SEP's political struggle against petty-bourgeois radicalism

Arts Review

An intriguing film festivalabove all, Mike Leigh's Peterloo

An interview with Mike Leigh, director of Peterloo: "You don't run out of steam if what you do is to literally hold the mirror up to nature"

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa