Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 31 August 2018

Perspective

Reject the anti-Semitism slurs against Jeremy Corbyn! Drive out the Labour Party right wing!

The lying campaign to paint Corbyn as an anti-Semite aims to discredit socialism in the hope of preventing any challenge by the working class to austerity and war.

News & Analysis

As classes begin, Detroit schools shut off drinking water due to high levels of lead and copper

The pollution of the water supply is particularly devastating for children, whose brains and bodies are especially at risk from toxins.

Vancouver Education Association shuts down strike as teacher walkouts continue throughout southwest Washington

Turbulence hits emerging markets as Argentina's central bank hikes interest rates to 60 percent

Widespread opposition to Australian government ban on Chelsea Manning

Conflicts inside Liberal Party shed light on lurch to right in Australian government

French, British boats clash over English Channel scallops amid Brexit crisis

Immigrant mother sues for $40 million after child dies following ICE detainment

Steelmakers in US demand historic concessions as contracts for 31,000 workers set to expire

US Steel workers rally in Pittsburgh area

An interview with a relative of Chicago house fire victim

Foxconn dramatically alters plans for Wisconsin facility

Two construction workers killed in scaffolding collapse near Disney World

IMF pushes for more social cuts in Ukraine

Alex Salmond resigns from Scottish National Party

History

Fifty years since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Part four

Obituary

Arsne Tchakarian (1916-2018): the Manouchian Group's resistance struggle

SEP 2018 Election Campaign

Abolish student debt! Public education is a social right!

IYSSE

Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and take up the fight for socialism!

Book Review

Growing poverty in cities and growing wealth at the top

Arts Review

100 years since the birth of American filmmaker Robert Aldrich

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa