New Today -- 22 April 2017

Perspective

France's election at gunpoint

As tens of millions of voters prepare to go to the polls Sunday, an intervention by elements in the French state machine is underway to swing the elections to the right.

News & Analysis

Arkansas carries out first of five "assembly line" executions

Ledell Lee saw some four-and-a-half torturous hours pass between his originally scheduled 7 p.m. execution and the time he was marched into the execution chamber.

Tense standoff continues on Korean peninsula

US defense secretary targets Syria with chemical weapons allegation

Homeland Security chief defends deportation of DREAMer immigrant

Hundreds of thousands to participate in worldwide "March for Science"

A response from a scientist to "Science and socialism"

Twelve dead as food riots spread in working class districts of Caracas, Venezuela

Leading ministers outline war agenda behind UK's snap general election

Media and politicians agitate against Turks living in Germany

Latest economic data dampen US growth prospects

Canadian government seeks to placate Trump following NAFTA comments

Hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners

Police provocation at Flint Town Hall results in six arrests

Over 8.3 million American adults suffer from severe psychological distress

A surge in Minnesota of homeless elderly

More warnings about the Australian housing market

IYSSE

Open letter from the IYSSE to the president of Humboldt University in Berlin

Commentary

US steps up campaign against Julian Assange

Arts

WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at San Diego State University on art and identity politics

Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!

Sri Lanka: Jaffna residents demand release of Maruti Suzuki workers

Workers Struggles

Fujitsu strikers in the UK speak out in defence of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers

UK nurses in online vote over strike in protest at low pay

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Socialist Equality Party

Stop the drive to world war! For peace, equality and socialism!

ICFI supporters in India call meeting on "World War and the Russian Revolution"