Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 1 October 2018

Perspective

Hundreds of thousands demand strike action in the US

With social anger at plunging living standards boiling over, the unions are desperately seeking to divert opposition behind the election of Democratic Party candidates in November.

News & Analysis

More than eight hundred dead after earthquakes and tsunami strike Indonesia

Fourteen years after the 2004 tsunami killed up to 230,000 people, governments throughout the region and internationally have done nothing to prevent a similar mass tragedy.

Democrats, media press Kavanaugh sexual assault campaign

Dozens injured as Catalan separatists and regional police clash in Barcelona

Julian Assange appoints new WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief

Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp

World Bank warns Gaza faces economic collapse

Lpez Obrador promises Truth Commission in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students

Brazil's Workers Party leader covers up far-right threats to next government

Beijing university threatens Marxist student society

Senior management implodes after exposure of government interference at Australia's state-funded media

Commentary

Macron whitewashes French state murder of Maurice Audin

Arts Review

Capernaum, Screwdriver, Rosie, The Public and Black 47: Socially critical films from the Middle East, Ireland and the US

This week in history

This week in history: October 1-7