New Today -- 15 December 2018

Perspective

China's economic slowdown: The political issues confronting the working class

The China slowdown is part of a global process, exposing the fraudulent claim that the global economy had finally "turned the corner" after the deep recession produced by the financial crisis a decade ago.

News & Analysis

The death of Jackeline Caal: A seven-year-old victim of Trump's war on immigrants

While Democrats denounced the death, they supported equally repressive policies under Obama.

French state prepares crackdown for fifth Saturday of "yellow vest" protests

Sri Lankan plantation workers end strike action under protest

Fighting reported in Yemeni port, despite cease-fire

Australian workers and youth speak out in defence of Julian Assange

UAW attempts third sellout contract at northwest Indiana Lear auto parts plants

US Navistar workers to vote again on contract after 98 percent "no" vote

Union isolates Cambria hotel workers in Chicago as British Columbia and Los Angeles hotel employees protest

Number of UK households in energy debt increases by 300,000, owing nearly 400 million

"Lefts" ensure stage-managed Australian Labor Party conference

Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta

Book Review

Rohini Hensman's Indefensible: The ISO discovers its musethe CIAPart 2

Mehring Books

In Defense of Leon Trotsky presented at Moscow Book Fair

Arts Review

Bodyguard: A political thriller in six episodes from the UK

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific