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New Today -- 5 March 2016

Perspective

TVA pension cuts: A new stage in the assault on American workers

The attack on the pensions of federal employees is a warning that no section of the working class is exempt from the social counterrevolution being carried out in the interests of the financial aristocracy.

News & Analysis

US sends aircraft carrier to challenge China in South China Sea

The dispatch of a US carrier strike group is part of a wave of provocations over China's alleged militarisation of the South China Sea.

US presses India to join anti-China alliance

Police arrest and interrogate Brazil's ex-President Lula

US employment report: Payrolls rise, wages fall

Flint resident files lawsuit against corporations, officials

Leading tech firms join Apple suit over iPhone encryption

Cameron and Hollande beat anti-immigrant drum to oppose Brexit

German parties shift to the right ahead of state elections

Report on German poverty refutes propaganda of social recovery

Australia: Qantas reaps record profits by slashing jobs and wages

Indian power deal with Bangladesh highlights geo-political rivalry

Arts Review

Two poor films on the Afghanistan warWhiskey Tango Foxtrot and A Warand Jons Cuarn's Desert

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

IYSSE campaigns against war at universities in Australia and New Zealand

Australian university students denounce the drive to war and austerity

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific