New Today -- 9 July 2016

Perspective

NATO's war summit in Warsaw

NATO policy in Eastern Europe aims to permanently threaten Russia with all-out war while seeking to contain the alliance's own escalating internal divisions.

News & Analysis

Afghan war veteran guns down five Dallas police

The Dallas events take place in the context of an unrelenting campaign to portray the police killing of unarmed men in exclusively racial terms.

Merkel calls for German rearmament ahead of NATO summit

Polish government puts Warsaw under effective martial law for NATO summit

Australian parliamentarian calls for Iraqi war crimes trial

Australian election outcome heightens divisions within the Greens

Canada's elite rattled by Brexit vote

US unemployment rate rises despite rebound in new jobs

Erie, Pennsylvania school district passes austerity budget with emergency funding

San Joaquin County, California strikers sent back to work with no contract

British fake bomb detectors withdrawn from Iraq following terrorist attacks

Chile's "General Never Again" arrested for Caravan of Death killings

Philippine police and vigilantes kill 72 during first week of Duterte government

Widespread destruction in China following floods

The UK Brexit crisis

Left Unity endorses pro-EU offensive to overturn Brexit referendum

Arts Review

Toward a socialist future: Children's picture books after the Bolshevik Revolution

Socialist Equality Party

The Australian election crisis: The way forward for the working class

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific