New Today -- 1 December 2018

Perspective

Casualties of the social counterrevolution in America

The "mortality crisis" is the product of policies of social counterrevolution carried out by both the Democrats and Republicans in collaboration with the trade unions.

News & Analysis

As G20 Summit opens, US political establishment brays for trade war and military escalation

Trump's trip to the G20 Summit in Argentina has been proceeded by demands for trade war and military escalation against Russia and China.

Special counsel, Democrats step up pressure on Trump over Russia, Assange

Police repression in Buenos Aires for G20: a dress-rehearsal for dictatorship

Central American migrants facing horror on US border

Three killed, eight injured in high speed US Border Patrol chase in southern California

CNN fires contributor accused of "anti-Semitism" for defending Palestinian rights

Ukraine: Poroshenko declares martial law to crack down on political and social opposition

Merkel backs Ukrainian provocations against Russia

Mexico's Lopez Obrador embraces military on eve of presidential inauguration

Strikes and demonstrations shake France

Catalonia rocked by a week of strikes against austerity

Locked-out ABI aluminum workers demonstrate in downtown Montreal

At ABI workers' protest, USW officials accost and threaten WSWS supporters

Australian Labor Party helps disintegrating government impose repressive laws

Thousands of Australian high school students join climate change strike

New Zealand teachers' struggle at a crossroads

International Commitee of the Fourth International

Attentive audience at David North's Sydney launch of The Heritage We Defend

The fight against mass layoffs at GM

Attend the December 9 meeting in Detroit to oppose the GM plant closures!

Arts Review

I objectIan Hislop's search for dissent: An exhibition that eradicates socialist ideas and revolutionary action

Science

Last light for the Kepler space telescope

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa