New Today -- 8 October 2018

Perspective

After "no" vote by UPS workers, Teamsters bureaucracy declares contract ratified

The naked fact is that the rank and file voted down the contract, and the Teamsters union is despotically ignoring their vote and imposing it anyway.

News & Analysis

US Senate elevates right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court

The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh marks a further major step to the right by the highest US court.

Fascistic candidate Jair Bolsonaro places first in Brazilian presidential election

Detroit Westin Book Cadillac workers join hotel walkouts

Limo crash in upstate New York kills 20

Eighteen-year-old found hanged in northern Wisconsin jail

Israeli mass murder of Gazans targets children

French government staggered by Interior Minister Collomb's resignation

Labour Party-run councils escalate austerity in UK

Sharp rise in child protection interventions in Australia

US envoy to Australia reveals joint bid to block Huawei in Papua New Guinea

Featured Commentary

Obama endorses DSA's Ocasio-Cortez, along with CIA Democrats

Commentary

Socialist Alternative on New York primaries: Burrowing further into the Democratic Party

Canada: The unions' suppression of the 199597 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today

Arts Review

Damien Chazelle's First Man: Reduced in spaceand opera singer Maria Callas, the Afghanistan war, small-town America

This week in history

This week in history: October 8-14