New Today -- 19 December 2018

Perspective

The working class and the environmental crisis

It is not "humanity" that is guilty of contributing to climate change or the destruction of the ecosystem. It is the capitalist class.

News & Analysis

Rising homelessness: The reality of life for workers in a "booming" US economy

A new government report shows that homelessness is on the rise in the United States for the second year in a row.

Central American asylum seekers forced to wait for months at US-Mexico border

Woman convicted for climbing Statue of Liberty to protest Trump's anti-immigrant policies

UPS workers describe company reign of terror in wake of Teamsters sellout

Police break up Amazon workers' protest over oppressive conditions

Brazilian GM workers discuss call for rank-and-file committees

Fascist cell uncovered in German police force

Troops to be deployed in case of no-deal Brexit

General practitioners abandoning Britain's National Health Service

Canada's media foments anti-China campaign after Meng arrest

Australian Labor Party steps up commitment to US alliance in "disrupted world"

Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees on remote island

Commentary

Actor Geoffrey Rush denies new #MeToo-inspired claims of "inappropriate" behaviour

Arts Review

Nancy Wilson (1937-2018), an extraordinary singer who will be missed

Russian television's Trotsky serial: A degraded spectacle of historical falsification and anti-Semitism