New Today -- 5 July 2018

Perspective

Ten years after the Wall Street crash, record stock buybacks and mergers

The money-mad fixation of the financial oligarchy on ever rising share values is starving society of resources and preventing any social problem from being addressed.

News & Analysis

Trump administration using separated immigrant children as leverage to coerce parents to sign "voluntary" deportation forms

The Trump administration has responded to a court-ordered "family reunification" process by forcing immigrant parents with separated children into signing a document agreeing to deportation back to their country of origin.

Sponsors of migrant children battle financial costs and bureaucratic red tape

Trump administration rescinds right of detained immigrants to in-person court appearances in New York City

Riots erupt in Nantes in western France after police murder

Trump pressed aides, Latin American leaders on US invasion of Venezuela

Persecution of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange continues

Trump withdraws Obama guidances backing racial preferences in school admissions

Report: Lower-income New Yorkers suffer the greatest mass transit hardships

Britain's role in US rendition and torture revealed

British government imposes collective punishment by evicting families from public housing

Austria: 100,000 demonstrate in Vienna against labour "reforms"

India: Victims of police attack on Tuticorin protests speak out

Former Malaysian prime minister arrested and charged

East Timorese government sworn in, instability escalates

Autoworkers struggles

Family of Jacoby Hennings to celebrate young autoworker's life

Commentary

The ISO's Socialism 2018 Conference: Socialist phraseology in the service of American imperialism

Arts Review

Mary Shelley: Prometheus trivialized