New Today -- 8 May 2017

Perspective

A new stage in the US health care counterrevolution

The passage of the American Health Care Act by the House of Representatives sets the pace for devastating cuts in health care for working people, to fund a windfall for the financial oligarchy.

News & Analysis

Macron wins French presidency

Over four million people cast blank or spoiled ballots to express their hostility to both candidates presented by the French political establishment.

Defence Minister Von der Leyen apologises for criticizing the German army

German interior minister proposes anti-immigrant and racist "defining German culture"

European Council endorses Irish unification in hardline negotiations over Brexit

Afghanistan-Pakistan border clash erupts amid seething regional tensions

Fifteen-year-old high school freshman with BB gun killed by police in San Diego

Honeywell Aerospace cuts retiree health care benefits

Federal agency to investigate talk show host Stephen Colbert over anti-Trump joke

South Korean presidential frontrunner stresses agreement with Trump

Japanese PM plans to remove constitutional shackles on the military by 2020

New Zealand: Peace Action Wellington endorses Anzac Day

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

May 8-14: Bolsheviks convene all-Russian congress amid government crisis

Lenin's Return to Russia and the April Theses

Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!

Students and workers in Pittsburgh and western New York support framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers

NHS Fightback

The destruction of the National Health Service and the role of NHS FightBack