New Today -- 8 February 2018

Perspective

Trump's parade and the threat of military dictatorship

The US president's bid to roll tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue is no mere personal whim. It is bound up with deep-going changes in US society and the capitalist state apparatus.

News & Analysis

German parties reach agreement on grand coalition for war and austerity

A new grand coalition between the Social Democrats and conservative parties will launch a massive military build-up, initiate a new round of austerity and carry out police-state measures.

Senate Democrats agree to massive boost in military spending

US vice president foreshadows "toughest" sanctions on North Korea

Earthquake hits Taiwan, killing eight people and injuring hundreds

New York City limousine driver kills himself in protest over poverty wages

Former TPT workers at Jeep seek to reopen lawsuit against UAW, Fiat Chrysler

Thousands of workers in Puerto Rico continue to live without running water

UK High Court rejects Lauri Love's extradition to US

Belgium: terror trial begins of Saleh Abdeslam, "Europe's most wanted man"

Spain to double its military spending

Australia: Union pushes sell-out deal in NSW rail dispute

Canada's defence minister touts new offensive cyberwar powers

Arts Review

A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez: How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s

Commentary

Why does Mlenchon want to expel Syriza from the European Left Party?

Haringey Council leader Claire Kober: The social cleansing agenda of a Blairite "martyr"

Workers Struggles

APTIV autoworkers in northern Mexico are close to a strike