New Today -- 5 October 2017

Perspective

An independent class strategy for the Spanish and Catalan working class!

A struggle to rally workers and youth to an internationalist orientation can only be waged in uncompromising opposition to the violence unleashed by the Madrid government.

News & Analysis

Wall Street demands Puerto Rico pay up

Budget Director Mulvaney: "Puerto Rico's going to have to figure out how to fix the errors that it has made for the last generation on its own finances."

Trump administration crisis worsens amid war drive against North Korea

Spanish government sends troops to Catalonia

Germany's Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet

Germany's Social Democratic president calls for tougher refugee policy and adaptation to AfD

UK: Corbyn ally John McDonnell declares Labour's mission is to "stabilise capitalism"

As CAMI strike continues, Unifor sheds crocodile tears for Mexican workers

Australian Greens demand disqualification of all "foreign" MPs

Toyota ends car production in Australia

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Leon Trotsky on Yakov Sverdlov (March 1925)

Arts Review

On the loss of Tom Petty

Socialist Equality Party

SEP Australia verifies "registered party" status once again

Socialist Equality Group holds public meeting following New Zealand election

New Zealand workers and youth discuss the growing danger of global war