New Today -- 1 February 2019

Perspective

The program and strategy to defend jobs

The demonstration, called by the WSWS and the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees, is the first organized expression of rank-and-file opposition to GM's jobs massacre.

News & Analysis

Immigrants subjected to nasal force-feeding at ICE detention center

The Trump administration has imported the savage tortures carried out at Guantanamo Bay and other CIA prisons, for use against immigrants and refugees.

US "Worldwide Threat Assessment" takes aim at China

US escalates threats against Venezuela

Extreme cold spell wreaks havoc across United States

India: Unions betray Tamil Nadu teachers' and government workers' strike

West Virginia teachers angered over renewed attack on public education

Worker in Mexico fired, beaten, censored, and falsely charged for protesting corporate abuses

Foxconn drastically scales back Wisconsin investment

Housekeeper trapped in billionaire's New York townhouse elevator for days

Class, not Brexit, is Britain's great divide

Australia's financial press promotes Labor's shadow treasurer

Footage shows police pointing assault rifles at child detainees in Australia

Obituary

Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018)

Mehring Books

The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century published in Tamil

Arts Review

Vanity Fair: A new television adaptation of the great 19th century novel

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa