New Today -- 16 May 2017

Perspective

The global ransomware attack and the crimes of the US spy agencies

The cyberweapons created by the NSA are aimed not only against the geopolitical targets of US imperialism, but the populations of the United States and the entire world.

News & Analysis

French President Macron names right-wing PM, meets Merkel to plan austerity and war

Macron's friendly meeting with Merkel shows that his election as president is part of a social counterrevolution being waged across Europe.

French auto parts workers at GM&S threaten to blow up plant to block closure

Media claims Trump revealed classified information to Russian visitors

China hosts international launch of One Belt, One Road initiative

Palace coup in the Austrian People's Party

Trump administration seizes on Aetna pullout from ACA to push Republicans' health plan

White supremacists hold rallies defending Confederate monuments in Virginia

University of Puerto Rico students protest austerity measures

Trump establishes commission to attack the right to vote

Yemenis dying of cholera as Trump meets with UAE ruler

The London Conference on Somalia: Imperialists plan military buildup in Horn of Africa

India intensifies repression in Kashmir

UK National Union of Teachers sabotages struggle against funding cuts

Australian Education Union pushes through industrial agreement at delegates' meetings

Australia: Tribunal to hear challenge to union-company wage-cutting deal

Commentary

Jrg Baberowski insists that Hitler was "not vicious"

IYSSE

No to militarism and surveillance! NYU must reveal all ties to military and spy agencies!

Arts

Liesl Tommy's Macbeth: An "updated" version, with pluses and minuses, of Shakespeare's tragedy

Socialist Equality Party

Australia: SEP meetings discuss international socialist program required to prevent war

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: The Americas