New Today -- 15 May 2017

Perspective

Trump's firing of Comey: A breakdown of constitutional government

Decades of social and political reaction, unending war and the artificial suppression of class conflict are coming to a head.

News & Analysis

Emmanuel Macron inaugurated as president of France

In a display of militarism and reaction, the newly elected president pledged to rekindle France's "spirit of conquest" by expanding the military and waging a full-scale offensive against workers' living standards.

German enthusiasm for Macron begins to wane

US, South Korea emphasise alliance after North Korean missile test

Neo-Nazi network in German army larger than previously thought

As workers' wages stagnated, UK super-rich "carried on making billions"

UK: Tate workers asked to "put money towards a sailing boat" for museum director

Report documents record levels of social inequality in Russia

US education chief Betsy DeVos plots school privatization with venture capitalists

US Federal student loan interest rates set to rise in July

US hepatitis C infections triple amid opioid epidemic

Waste plant polluting southwest Detroit neighborhoods

Burmese government rejects international inquiry into anti-Rohingya pogrom

Commentary

The global cyberattack, the NSA and Washington's war propaganda against Russia

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

May 15-21: Trotsky arrives in Petrograd

Seventh All-Russian Bolshevik Conference: Resolution on the war

Arts

Season 6 of HBO's Girls: Ending with a whimper