New Today -- 31 March 2016

Perspective

War: The great unmentionable in the 2016 US elections

While it is not a topic of significant debate among the various candidates contending for the presidential nomination, the growing international war drive, spearheaded by the United States, looms over the election campaign.

News & Analysis

Forty thousand jobs threatened as Tata Steel announces end of UK operations

Neither Labour leader Corbyn nor the trade union bureaucracy proposes any struggle by steel workers in defence of their jobs.

Boeing to slash 4,000-8,000 jobs

Republican Party crisis deepens as candidates renege on "loyalty" pledge

Australian prime minister lurches from one crisis to the next

Politicians and media promote far-right Alternative for Germany

Hungary strengthens state security powers after Brussels attacks

European Court rubber-stamps police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

After the Brussels attack, Podemos defends "war on terror"

Costa Rica closes its borders to Cuban migrants

Immigrant farmworker sentenced to 25 years to life for leaving her newborn in California strawberry field

Detroit newspaper workers protest contract takeaways

Nearly 750 dead in US house fires in 2016

New layoffs in New Zealand meat processing

Commentary

The political economy of endless austerity

Arts Review

Eye in the Sky: The liberal war on terror