New Today -- 9 February 2017

Perspective

Week three of the Trump presidency: A crisis of bourgeois rule and turn toward dictatorship

Events of the past several days have exposed the acute political crisis in the United States and the breakdown of democratic forms of rule.

News & Analysis

Chinese foreign minister warns against war with the US

Trump's top adviser Steve Bannon declared last March there was "no doubt" that the US would go to war with China over the South China Sea in "five to ten years."

New York City high school students walk out against Trump's anti-immigrant measures

Trudeau and Trump: An alliance of aggression and war

Caterpillar workers in US overwhelmingly authorize strike

US Federal Court rules that Google must turn over emails stored abroad

UK House of Commons approves Brexit

British Airways cabin crew strike at Heathrow Airport

UK: Spending cuts deepen crisis in NHS mental health services

Austrian coalition government adopts right-wing programme

Right-wing senator's defection intensifies rifts in Australian government

Argentina: Macri's immigration decree brings back the politics of the Videla dictatorship

Sri Lanka: Tamil parties launch communal campaign to divert social tensions

Commentary

The New York Times indicts Trump for questioning the CIA's moral superiority

Socialism and defence of the free movement of labour: Part one