New Today -- 7 February 2019

Perspective

The reality of capitalism: GM makes $11.8 billion in profits while closing plants, eliminating 14,000 jobs

The huge profits, side-by-side with the destruction of entire communities, expose the real character of the capitalist system and why the working class must abolish it.

News & Analysis

Washington issues ultimatum to Venezuela over "humanitarian aid" ploy

Behind the cynical pretense of concern over Venezuela's social crisis, the Pentagon and CIA are setting the stage for an armed confrontation on the country's border.

Wave of walkouts in Matamoros, Mexico builds toward general strike

French National Assembly passes police state "anti-riot" law targeting protests

US-backed campaign for UN inquiry into China's treatment of Uyghurs

Protests erupt in Birmingham, Alabama after Thanksgiving Day police shooting of innocent man declared "justified"

Dearborn suppresses historical article on Henry Ford's anti-Semitism

US military conducting urban warfare training exercises in Los Angeles

Berlin-based airline files for bankruptcy

Election of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador signals further shift to US imperialism

Stansted 15 anti-deportation protesters go free

NHS 10-year plan: Recipe for further attacks on services and privatisation in UK

Chinese billionaire stripped of Australian residency as "foreign interference" campaign ramps up

Australian Labor Party outbids Coalition in big business tax handouts

Australian actor Craig McLachlan's defamation case postponed following police charges

Featured Commentary

AfD deputy denounces a Holocaust commemoration in German parliament

February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings

Lordstown GM plant closing: Another blow to northeastern Ohio

Sri Lankan tea plantation workers committee supports call for February 9 demonstration in Detroit

Obituary

Stanley Hill, who presided over wholesale corruption in NYC unions, dead at 82

Socialist Equality Party

Sri Lankan SEP public meetings to launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century