New Today -- 20 October 2017

Perspective

Spanish government vows to impose military-backed regime in Catalonia

Spanish ministers will meet tomorrow to prepare to invoke Article 155 and suspend Catalan regional self-rule after the region's October 1 independence referendum.

News & Analysis

Google escalates blacklisting of left-wing web sites and journalists

In a sweeping expansion of its moves to censor the Internet, Google has blacklisted leading left-wing websites and journalists from its news aggregation platform.

Estimated death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria rises to 450

Trump, John Kelly and the media firestorm over "disrespecting" the troops

US and European military operations in West Africa set the stage for broader war

Post-Grenfell: More than 400 million needed to make London residential buildings safe

Talks on forming German coalition government begin

Right-wing nationalists hand power to New Zealand Labour

Australia: Glencore steps up provocations against locked-out miners

Commentary

Political lessons of the Australian car industry closure

Auto Workers Struggles

The Canadian split from the UAWLessons for today

Arts Review

"1917How One Year Changed the World"

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa