New Today -- 15 February 2018

Perspective

Neo-McCarthyite hysteria at US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing

Tuesday's hearing was an exercise in right-wing hysteria aimed at promoting the claim that all social opposition in the United States is the product of foreign subversion.

News & Analysis

Seventeen killed in mass shooting at Florida high school

The mass shooting in Parkland is the latest in an endless series of violent incidents at schools in America.

Democrats back punitive immigration plan as Senate vote looms

Thousands to be sacked at GM factory in South Korea

French President Macron calls for the draft and threatens strikes on Syria

Germany: The coalition agreement and the return of militarism

UK Prime Minister May calls for fight to "defeat socialism"

Greece's far-right and military lead protests over Republic of Macedonia name

Twenty thousand demonstrate against fascist rampage in Macerata, Italy

China boosts censorship of social media

As profits soar, US construction workers see increase in death and injury on the job

Cross-Canada protests after acquittal of Saskatchewan rancher in fatal shooting of Indigenous youth

Scientists warn of health costs of Australian heatwaves

Commentary

The struggle against imperialism and for workers' power in IranPart 2

History

PBS's The Gilded Age: Removing the working class from the stage of history

The Grenfell Tower fire

Oppose the right-wing campaign against Grenfell fire documentary Failed by the State

Failed by the State co-director Daniel Renwick: "Every day I meet people who have been politicised and have a deeper consciousness"