Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 13 October 2018

Perspective

The "Grievance studies" hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans

Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian have struck a well-timed blow against postmodernism, a reactionary obstacle to the development of scientific socialist consciousness.

News & Analysis

Trump rejects calls for US to end arms sales to Saudi monarchy

The imperialist powers, with the US in the lead, are up to their necks in the blood-soaked repression of the Saudi regime, which has been exposed once again by the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Pages purged by Facebook were on blacklist promoted by Washington Post

Bonus removal cancels out Amazon's UK pay rise

US hotel workers continue strikes in eight cities

Sri Lankan tea estate workers step up demands for higher pay

Hurricane Michael brings death, devastation to US Southeast

Liberal newsweekly Die Zeit defends far-right publishers at Frankfurt Book Fair

Macron fails to name new French government

Survivors and bereaved give evidence"We will not be silenced anymore"

Russia: Putin ally Kudrin pushes for rapprochement with the imperialist powers

Australian government flags forcing new immigrants to live in designated zones

Australian "edu-business" set to profit under Gonski 2.0

Commentary

France's Mlenchon tacitly backs Wagenknecht's xenophobic Aufstehen group

Book review

Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine: A prescient warning of the danger of nuclear war

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific