New Today -- 13 December 2018

Perspective

A significant step forward: Detroit meeting of autoworkers resolves to form rank-and-file committees

In the center of world capitalism, the working class is beginning to establish the necessary organizational and political framework for a counter-offensive.

News & Analysis

Democrats downplay Google censorship at congressional hearing

The principal targets of censorship by the Internet companies, working with the US intelligence agencies, are left-wing, anti-war and socialist political viewpoints.

Sri Lankan plantation workers defy union and continue to strike

UK: May staggers on as more than a third of Tory MPs oppose her

Mass shooting in Strasbourg kills 3, wounds 12 before "yellow vest" protest

German daily accuses Macron of surrender to "yellow mob"

German army to acquire new tank battalion

Ford executives in Argentina convicted on 1970s torture charges

Caterpillar to close plant in Joliet, Illinois

Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in China

Limited movement in US-China trade talks

Russian workers strike against social misery and austerity

Australian Amazon worker alleges unfair dismissal

Hundreds of residential tower blocks around UK still clad in flammable material

Peruvian voters approve referendum proposals touted as answer to corruption

The fight against mass layoffs at GM

Report to Detroit meeting to fight GM plant closings

Commentary

Time magazine honors journalists facing repressionbut snubs Julian Assange

The Australian Labor Party and the persecution of Julian Assange

Arts Review

Wildlife: American dreams and discouragement