New Today -- 23 June 2018

Perspective

Democrats back massive Pentagon budget for war and repression

Democrats voted overwhelmingly for a bill to vastly expand the US nuclear arsenal, authorize Trump's planned military parade, and keep the Guantanamo Bay prison camp open.

News & Analysis

US Navy planning to build military camps to jail 120,000 immigrants

The government is preparing massive military detention camps where immigrantsand ultimately opponents of the governmentwill be kept in "austere" conditions.

Trump threatens to escalate trade war with Europe

Italy's interior minister announces plan to register Roma and Sinti

Teamsters reach sellout agreement "in principle" with UPS

With UAW complicity, layoffs take effect at GM Lordstown Complex in Ohio

Postal workers defy Sri Lankan government and continue national strike

Ontario's Ford-led government initiates class-war assault

UK: Lush workers oppose attempt to gag campaign against police undercover operations

UK: Education unions sabotage struggle against academisation and low pay

Australia: Telstra announces another 9,500 job cuts

Over 193 feared dead in another Indonesian ferry disaster

State of emergency declared following unrest in Papua New Guinea

Commentary

The foul role of Spiked in the demonization of Julian Assange

How the DSA bolsters the Democratic Party establishment: The case of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Grenfell fire: Local resident Joe Delaney speaks out against attack by Andrew O'Hagan on those seeking justice

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Oppose right-wing censorship at Frankfurt University

Arts Review

In Exile: A Family FilmRefugees from the Spanish Civil War

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

History

25 years since the Mack Avenue Fire Inquiry