New Today -- 6 October 2017

Perspective

The social end economic roots of the attack on democratic rights

New figures on social inequality reveal the material basis for the campaign in ruling circles to block access to the WSWS and other left-wing sites.

News & Analysis

Spain prepares military crackdown in Catalonia

The European Union is supporting Madrid's plans for a bloody military-police intervention in Catalonia and to impose a state of emergency across Spain.

Amid Catalan crisis, Madrid prepares military rule across Spain

Senate witch-hunters expand on their anti-Russia horror story

For one in four US women: Nearest abortion facility over 30 miles away

As Detroit mayoral election approaches, water shutoffs continue amidst pervasive poverty

Burma's anti-Rohingya pogrom fuels regional tensions

Japan's Democrats found new party to posture as opponents of remilitarization

Australian governments unveil sweeping new police powers

Siemens and Alstom rail train units merge as corporations prepare for trade war

Huge increase in UK firefighters with mental health problems

Google Censorship

The elites "have no credibility left:" An interview with journalist Chris Hedges

Science

Observation of gravitational waves wins Nobel Prize in physics

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa