New Today -- 27 September 2017

Perspective

Trump to devastated Puerto Rico: Wall Street must be paid!

The brutal and ignorant tweet from the US president expresses the real attitude of America's ruling oligarchy toward a population of 3.5 million confronting a humanitarian catastrophe.

News & Analysis

Trump makes another reckless threat against North Korea

By declaring that military action is not only an option but could be imminent, Trump is relentlessly pushing the world toward the precipice of a calamitous war.

Japanese prime minister calls snap election

Bannon-backed Senate candidate Roy Moore wins Alabama Republican primary

As Republican Obamacare repeal collapses, Democrats push pro-corporate "compromise"

As Unifor plots to end CAMI strike, corporate press hails union head

Turkey threatens Iraqi Kurdish government with war

French truckers take strike action against Macron's labor decrees

Row over Brexit punctures myth of unity behind Corbyn at Labour Party conference

UK government moves to prop up super-rich tax haven operations in British Virgin Islands

New Zealand military mobilised during Auckland Airport fuel outage

Google Censorship

One week in the media's McCarthyite witch-hunt against Russia

Socialist Equality Party

International meeting in Berlin calls for stepped-up struggle against capitalism and war

SGP election meeting: "War and inequality mutually reinforce one another"

Arts Review

Darren Aronofsky's mother!: Entirely misconceived