New Today -- 21 April 2017

Perspective

Washington threatens war against Iran

Secretary of State Tillerson made clear that Tehran's compliance with the nuclear agreement would do nothing to prevent US military aggression.

News & Analysis

Sections of Paris on lockdown after pre-election shooting

The day before Thursday's attack, French authorities said they planned to put 50,000 troops in the streets on Election Day, effectively holding the election at gunpoint.

US government and media ratchet up threats to North Korea

US preparing to seek the arrest of Julian Assange

Three dead as millions demonstrate across Venezuela

Detroit resumes mass water shutoffs with nearly 18,000 households at risk

Unions collaborate with Trump to push trade war and militarism

Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez found dead in his prison cell

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reverses Obama-era decision on student loan debt

Panorama's "A Spy in the IRA" reveals British collusion in Irish Republican Army internal discipline murders

Indian elite hails US bombings in Syria and Afghanistan

Australia: After ABC program, Labor calls for investigation into One Nation

The political issues in the fight to reject the Victorian teachers' EBA

Commentary

NPA candidate Philippe Poutou holds pro-war campaign meeting in Paris

Workers Struggles

New York-New Jersey cable workers strike against Spectrum

Growing opposition to Verdi trade union at Berlin airports

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

NHS Fightback

Private ward opened in UK National Health Service in Bournemouth Hospital