New Today -- 18 February 2017

Perspective

The popular movement against Trump vs. the corporate media's anti-Russia witch-hunt

Following Donald Trump's extraordinary news conference, the ferocious battle over imperialist policy between contending factions of the ruling class is intensifying.

News & Analysis

US Homeland Security memo: Deploy 100,000 National Guard troops to round up immigrants

The proposals outlined in a memo obtained by the AP would require the imposition of de facto martial law across broad swaths of the United States.

UAW to launch "Buy American" campaign

Pentagon chief warns of "arc of instability" at Munich security conference

German defence minister announces massive increase in military budget

Reality sinks in in Russia after Flynn ouster

French neo-fascists present anti-EU, anti-immigrant program in 2017 elections

UK: Southern GTR drivers vote against unoin-backed sellout deal

Lufthansa-union agreement on arbitration ruling: an attack on pilots in Germany

Republican health care plan guts Medicaid, shifts funds from poor to rich

Iowa governor signs bill limiting collective bargaining for state employees

The bizarre murder of North Korean leader's half-brother

Australian stripped of citizenship, setting dangerous precedent

Sri Lankan regime whips up hysteria over alleged assassination attempt on TNA parliamentarian

Commentary

US late-night comics fall into (anti-Russian) line

The way forward in the fight against Trump and May

NHS FightBack

Patient at Britain's Newham Acute Day Hospital launches campaign to fight closure

Socialist Equality Party

A wave of class struggles in Sri Lanka: Workers must fight for a socialist program to defend their rights

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific