New Today -- 4 March 2019

Perspective

Sanders launches his campaign with a blast of demagogy

Bernie Sanders' speech in Brooklyn was an exercise in demagogy, because there exists no relationship between the reforms he envisages and any realistic strategy for their implementation.

News & Analysis

Amid widespread opposition, union declares end to Oakland teachers strike

Hours after angry teachers denounced the sellout agreement during a mass meeting, the Oakland Education Association claimed the deal had been ratified.

Oakland teachers denounce agreement to end strike

India-Pakistan war tensions escalate

Sixteenth week of protests: French "yellow vests" support strikes in North Africa

Secret Service barred from making probe of far-right Alternative for Germany public

Spain holds political show trial of Catalan nationalist defendants

UK: The human cost of the right-to-buy housing crisis

Mass demonstration by public-sector workers in Berlin

No charges for Sacramento police officers who murdered Stephon Clark

Southwest Airlines sues airline mechanics over alleged slowdown

New York City transit agency raises fare, threatens budget cuts

Warnings of further housing plunge and job losses in Australia

Free Julian Assange!

Sydney rally issues strong demand for the freedom of Julian Assange

Freedom for Julian Assange depends upon the intervention of the working class

"Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother"