New Today -- 24 January 2019

Perspective

Washington engineers right-wing coup in Venezuela

The backing by governments in Latin America and internationally for the US-orchestrated coup attempt are part of a global drive toward the right and dictatorship.

News & Analysis

Matamoros strike set to expand as ruling class boosts unions

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador has intervened on behalf of the corporations to call on the unions take "control" of the situation.

Matamoros, Mexico maquiladora worker speaks out

Virginia and Denver teachers set to strike as educators struggles continue to spread

Trump accepts delay in State of the Union speech

Federal workers and contractors demand action to end shutdown as second missed payday approaches

Julian Assange issues "urgent" legal challenge against US extradition plans

China-US rifts widen on eve of trade talks

UPS workers in Rockford continue to speak out against sellout contract

Shopko retail chain files for bankruptcy, 105 stores across US to close

Ontario guts financial aid for low-income students

UK: More troubling questions emerge in the Skripal case

Australia: BlueScope steelworkers vote to strike at Port Kembla

Lawsuits against Australian government reveal horror in refugee camp

Arts Review

Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto archive on the screen

IYSSE

Final IYSSE election meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin

Commentary

The Matamoros auto strike and internet censorship