New Today -- 25 October 2017

Perspective

The American oligarchy prepares a new tax windfall for the rich

Trump's tax plan raises to a new level the plundering of society's resources by the ruling class that has been underway for nearly four decades.

News & Analysis

US Republican senator calls Trump "dangerous to a democracy"

The speech by Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, marks an escalation of divisions within the state that have developed throughout the Trump administration.

Slain US special forces troops on apparent assassination mission in Niger

Montana company with ties to Trump cashes in from Puerto Rico disaster

Xi Jinping consolidates grip over Chinese Communist Party apparatus

Documents show US participation in 1965-66 massacres in Indonesia

Autoworkers speak on suicide of young Ford worker at Detroit area plant

Los Angeles Police Department set to deploy drones

Review of Tennessee's bail bond system exposes inequalities in US justice system

Road death of UK pensioner the result of tragic circumstances

Trade war in the aerospace industry: Airbus takes over shares in Bombardier

After electoral victory, Argentine president promises "most austere policies"

Labour Party details coalition agreement with New Zealand First

Australian flu epidemic inundates public health services

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Tsar to Lenin screens to sold out audiences in London and Manchester

Arts Review

Season 4 of Netflix's BoJack Horseman: Social and individual psychology