New Today -- 17 December 2018

Perspective

The global crisis of capitalist rule and the strategy of socialist revolution

Whatever the national peculiarities, the political crisis of class rule in every country is driven by the same global processes.

News & Analysis

Mass demonstration by Los Angeles teachers

More than 33,000 teachers and health and human service professionals in the Los Angeles Unified School District have been working without a new contract since the expiry of their old one in June 2017.

Sri Lankan president reinstates sacked prime minister

Fifth French "yellow vest" protest opposes Macron government

Democrats, media silent on child's death at US border

Federal judge in Texas rules Affordable Care Act unconstitutional

Trump appoints budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting White House chief of staff

New York City school therapists protest for changes to union-backed contract

West Virginia: Task force concludes without a "fix" for public workers' insurance

Coal mine rescue brings to light desperate social conditions in West Virginia

Hundreds attend vigil for victims of Youngstown, Ohio house fire

UK: "Stansted 15" anti-deportation protesters found guilty of terrorism charges

Grenfell fire: Local resident and Grenfell Action group member, Joe Delaney, gives harrowing account to inquiry of night of fire

MSF reveals "mental health suffering" in Australia's Nauru refugee detention camp

Australian Labor Party leaders warn of rising popular discontent

IYSSE

Student parliament condemns right-wing attack on IYSSE meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin

Book Review

Rohini Hensman's Indefensible: The ISO discovers its musethe CIAPart 3

Commentary

Corbyn, Brexit and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Europe

The international significance of the Sri Lankan plantation workers' strike

Arts Review

Alfonso Cuarn's Roma: Art and struggle

This week in history

This week in history: December 17-23