New Today -- 3 February 2018

Perspective

Fear of working class upsurge triggers plunge in financial markets

The increasing market volatility takes place amidst signs of mounting working class resistance.

News & Analysis

Release of Nunes memo throws anti-Russia campaign into disarray

In a further intensification of the factional conflict gripping the US ruling elite, the White House published a congressional memo Friday alleging the FBI used false pretenses to spy on the Trump campaign.

Trump administration presses for more options for war on North Korea

Half a million metalworkers participate in strikes in Germany

French workers support growing mass strikes in Germany

West Virginia teachers hold one-day strikes and statewide protests

To reduce costs Texas officials slash special education enrollment

Amazon reports record profit in final quarter of 2017

National Guard, federal agents and police mobilize for Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis

Deliberate neglect leads to inmate death at New York's Rikers Island

UK: Justice4Grenfell meeting endorses May government's inquiry

Australian government defies criticism of sweeping "foreign interference" bills

Australian mining union isolates locked out Oaky North workers

Commentary

Seventy years after Sri Lankan independence: The record of capitalist decay and the necessity for socialism

NHS Fightback

The human cost of the destruction of the National Health Service

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific