New Today -- 27 October 2017

Perspective

Washington exploiting Green Beret deaths to escalate Africa intervention

American imperialism is preparing to inflict upon the African continent the levels of carnage that it has already wrought upon the Middle East, where entire societies have been shattered.

News & Analysis

As US moves to abolish estate tax, world's billionaires pile up another $1 trillion

As the ultra-rich grow older and wealthier, they are increasingly preoccupied with the question of "succession."

"I have no choice": Trump bows to CIA pressure to withhold documents related to Kennedy assassination

Madrid's talks with Catalan premier collapse as Spain threatens military rule

European Central Bank to continue bond-buying program

Immigration officials arrest 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after surgery

Trump declares opioid epidemic "will get worse before it gets better"

AFL-CIO concludes convention in St. Louis

Trump administration silences government environmental scientists

Some Detroit-area residents still homeless after eviction from condemned low-income motel

Trudeau courts Amazon CEO to locate its second headquarters in Canada

Germany's "Jamaica" coalition parties agree on debt brake, tax cuts and privatisation

London: Public-private housing partnership to enforce social cleansing in Haringey Borough

Australian troops sent to the Philippines despite end of Marawi siege

Australian statistics show collapse in manufacturing, mounting jobs crisis

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

On the eve of revolution: The Bolshevik Party, factory committees, and the mass movement of the working class

Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE calls public meetings to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution

Arts Review

Flint: How much of the "social crime" does the film present?

Socialist Equality Party

Free, high quality public education is a social right! Join the Committee For Public Education!

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa