New Today -- 24 May 2017

Perspective

UK government deploys military following Manchester suicide bombing

It has already been confirmed that the suicide bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was known to security services but supposedly not considered a threat.

News & Analysis

Trump's scorched-earth budget: $1.7 trillion in cuts to vital social programs

Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget, titled "A New Foundation for American Greatness," is a 52-page declaration of war against the working class.

Ex-CIA director's testimony fuels new round of anti-Russian agitation

US launches raid in Yemen as Trump concludes Middle East trip

UK Prime Minister Theresa May forced to backpedal on "dementia tax"

Brazil crisis threatens second impeachment in less than a year

Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina redistricting

32-year-old worker dies at Detroit area US Steel mill

Caterpillar, Butterball to close factories in Montgomery, Illinois, laying off 1,400 workers

Planned Parenthood to close 10 clinics in Iowa and the mountain West

Chicago police keep nearly 400,000 on a secret watch list

New South Korean government pushes sham "chaebol" reform

Australian government demonises "fake refugees"

S&P downgrades small banks amid warnings of Australian housing slowdown

Indian establishment lauds military's use of Kashmiri youth as "human shield"

International Amazon Workers Voice

Socialist Equality Party launches International Amazon Workers Voice newsletter

Arts

Netflix series Dear White People: Self-pity in the service of social climbing