New Today -- 23 July 2018

Perspective

Bernie Sanders embraces the anti-Russia campaign

There is no contradiction between the influx of military-intelligence candidates into the Democratic Party and the Democrats' making use of the services of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to give the party a "left" cover.

News & Analysis

Rates of black lung highest in 25 years among Appalachian coal miners

Decades after the deadly disease was nearly eradicated, more than one in five veteran coal miners now suffer from black lung disease.

Israel intervenes to extract US-UK-backed White Helmets from Syria

Imminent threat to Julian Assange underscores need for global defence movement

Teamsters union blackmails UPS workers: Approve contract or your wages will be cut

Boston rally supports locked-out National Grid workers

Steam pipe explosion in Manhattan spreads asbestos

Trade tensions intensify at G20 meeting

Canada boosts support for US-led NATO missions in the Baltic and Iraq

Egyptian junta extends state of emergency and censors social media

Croatia's performance at World Cup used to promote far-right

After three months of demonstrations end, Nicaraguan workers face further repression and imperialist threats

Leaked report reveals plans for martial law in South Korea

Australia: Tamil refugee deported, separated from his wife and baby daughter

Workers Struggles

Protest marks six years since frame-up of Maruti Suzuki workers began

Sheffield Supertram workers hold 72-hour strike, as strike ballot in Manchester begins

Sheffield residents voice strong support for Supertram workers' strike

Arts Review

A new film version of Fahrenheit 451: A frightening future world where firefighters set fires

This week in history

This week in history: July 23-29