New Today -- 17 July 2017

Perspective

Three die in Honolulu high-rise without sprinkler system

The disaster in Honolulu makes clear that the London fire was no aberration. All over the world, the lives of working people are treated as expendable in the pursuit of wealth and profits by the financial elite.

News & Analysis

Trump administration prepares mass deportations

Any immigrant, picked up anywhere in the country, who is unable to prove residence in the US for the past 90 days, could be summarily deported.

Low birth rates, high stress levels among immigrant population in the US

One week after Mosul's "liberation," horror of US siege continues to unfold

New information reveals extent of attack on democratic rights during G20 protest in Hamburg

UK contaminated blood scandal has global dimensions

US Justice Department arrests over 400 in health care fraud crackdown

Tufts Medical Center lockout to end with no gains for nurses

New York Democrat Sheldon Silver's corruption conviction is overturned

China establishes military base in Djibouti

Australian government shuts off power to refugees imprisoned on Manus Island

Australia: Hundreds evacuated after toxic blaze at Melbourne recycling plant

Local residents speak out over toxic recycling plant

Commentary

The Grenfell fire: Class politics versus identity politics

After Hamburg G20 protests: SPD, Left Party and Greens prepare law-and-order election campaign

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

July 1723: The "July Days": Insurrection and counterrevolution in Petrograd

Arts

Lady Macbetha bored, unhappy young wife "ready to go through fire"and Mali Blues