New Today -- 17 January 2019

Perspective

Mexican strikers show working class answer to capitalist reaction at US-Mexico border

At the US-Mexico border, the two chief social classes under capitalismthe capitalist class and the working classare demonstrating the two alternatives for the future of mankind.

News & Analysis

Theresa May's Conservative government survives no-confidence vote

What should have been a day of reckoning for May turned out to be a humiliating verdict on every capitulation made by Labour leader Corbyn to his party's right wing since he became leader in September 2015.

Los Angeles teachers discuss need to expand strike as UTLA resumes talks to end walkout

Thousands gather at mass meeting as maquiladora strike grows

Killing of US troops in Syria feeds furor over withdrawal

House Speaker Pelosi asks Trump to postpone State of the Union address

US federal judge upholds compulsory unpaid labor during government shutdown

Pentagon extends troop deployment at Mexican border until September

Ironworker killed at Amazon construction site in California

Gdańsk mayor and opposition politician Paweł Adamowicz brutally assassinated

UK: Trial begins of police commander in 1989 Hillsborough football disaster

The US boosts military ties with Sri Lanka

Analysis of Congo election data points to "huge fraud" in vote tally

Australia: Hutchison Ports workers begin work bans in Sydney and Brisbane

The Los Angeles Teachers Strike

A fighting strategy for California teachers

The Fight Against Postmodernism

Widespread student support for beleaguered professor Peter Boghossian

Commentary

Yellow vest protests expose right-wing politics of Germany's Left Party

Arts Review

Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion at the Toledo Museum of Art

The fight against historical falsification

Right-wing Humboldt University Professor Jorg Baberowski threatens students