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New Today -- 29 December 2018

Perspective

Facebook: The global censor

This year has seen an intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming these companies into censors that police what their users say, do and think.

News & Analysis

Impact on workers, services spreads as US shutdown enters second week

More than 800,000 federal workers are going into the New Year without paychecks.

Dozens killed in protests against austerity and repression in Sudan

University authorities suppress student protest in China

Syrian government troops deployed to flashpoint city of Manbij

Japan plans for massive military build-up aimed at China

A wild week on Wall Street

Thousands face loss of mental health coverage in the US

Chicago ZF chassis plant to close, lay off 261 workers

Government-named arbitrator to dictate Canada Post workers' contract

UK: Investigation into Grenfell fire will "take years, not months," police say

Commentary

Academics and students oppose Cambridge University appointment of eugenicist Noah CarlPart 1

France's "yellow vest" protests and the fraud of Mlenchon's "citizens revolution"

Arts Review

Vice: A portrait of an American corporate-military gangster

International Committee of the Fourth International

Victory of the Trotskyists in the 19851986 split in the ICFI

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific