New Today -- 2 October 2017

Perspective

Trump's tax plan: The wish list of the American oligarchy

While the ruling class makes trillions available for war, bank bailouts, quantitative easing and tax cuts for the rich, it ignores basic social needs with criminal indifference.

News & Analysis

Millions defy brutal crackdown by Spanish police to vote in Catalan referendum

The Popular Party government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sent some 16,000 police to Catalonia to shut down polling stations, seize ballot boxes and attack voters.

Puerto Rico faces health catastrophe as Trump tweets "We have done a great job"

Puerto Rican survivors describe dire conditions after hurricane

New York City workers collecting aid express anger at Trump's response to Puerto Rico disaster

Trump rules out negotiations with North Korea

Trudeau rushes to declare Edmonton attack a "terrorist" act

Unifor president at CAMI picket line: A declaration of bankruptcy

Protests over police violence enter third week in St. Louis

Chicago launches new fig leaf police oversight agency

Tom Price resignation highlights corruption in Tump's cabinet

CDC report finds large increase in sexually transmitted disease across the US

UK public sector employment at record low

Bailed out in 2008 crash, AIG now out of government oversight

Australian job figures cloak reality

History

The contradictions of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's The Vietnam War

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

October 2 - 8: Trotsky elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet

Google Censorship

The New York Times reports World Socialist Web Site charge of Google censorship and blacklisting

Commentary

The AfD enters the Bundestag: a far right party of the ruling establishment in Germany

Trump's secretary of education rolls back Obama-era regulations on campus sexual misconduct

International Amazon Workers Voice

Workers denounce Amazon for speed-ups after two die on the job