New Today -- 1 April 2017

Perspective

Senate committee hearing blames Russian "information warfare" for social discontent in the US

The line promoted by the political reactionaries speaking at the hearing is that mass political and social discontent is largely attributable to the malevolent actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

News & Analysis

Trump steps up trade war agenda

US President Donald Trump signed two protectionist executive orders Friday, signalling a return to the kind of measures that proved so disastrous in the 1930s.

The UK's Great Repeal Bill: A bonfire of workers' rights

Greek Syriza government and European Union finalise more brutal austerity

Japan's ruling party calls for military to have offensive weapons

Trump expected to sign anti-privacy measure into law

More than 52,000 in the US died from drug overdoses in 2015

Highway bridge collapses after fire in Atlanta, affecting over 200,000 commuters

Trump's education chief touts Uber as model for "school choice"

German air force provides target coordinates for massacre of civilians in Syria

As toll from Peru's storms mount, capitalists see new source of profits

Six months after Hurricane Matthew, hunger and desperation grip Haiti's south

Australian government withholds report on death of unemployed teenager

Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!

Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE hold picket to demand freedom of Maruti Suzuki workers

India: Stalinist-led unions call token protest against frame up of Maruti Suzuki workers

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

SEP and IYSSE to screen documentary of Russian Revolution April 4 in Detroit

NHS FightBack

UK: Health workers denounce attacks on Bournemouth Intermediate Care Service

Workers Struggles

Pseudo-left cover for dockworkers' defeat in Spain

UK: Southern GTR train drivers speak in opposition to rail union sell-out deal

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

IYSSE

IYSSE member Mitch Abrams wins student senate seat at Eastern Michigan University