New Today -- 15 April 2019

Perspective

Stop the extraordinary rendition of Julian Assange!

What is being presented as an extradition request by the US is so loaded with illegality that it would be more precise to call it an extraordinary rendition.

News & Analysis

31,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers strike at over 240 supermarkets in New England

Supermarket workers at Stop & Shop, owned by retailer Ahold Delhaize, have struck the supermarket chain for the first time in 30 years.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John Bruce Yeh speaks on musicians strike

Labour leads "rape" smears against Julian Assange demanding Swedish extradition

German media denounce Assange

Protest outside London's Belmarsh prison demands release of Julian Assange

Socialist Equality Party (UK) member Robert Stevens speaks at rally to demand release of Assange from Belmarsh prison

Supporters protesting outside Belmarsh prison speak out in defense of Julian Assange

Bernie Sanders silent on Assange, vocal in promoting nationalism at Michigan rally

Trump, ultra-right media target Representative Ilhan Omar

Palestinian leader of campaign to boycott Israel denied entry to US

Australia: Kimberly-Clark to shut Ingleburn plant and axe over 200 jobs.

Featured Commentary

Who funded the ISO? An analysis of the financial basis of pseudo-left politics

Free Assange and Manning

Falsifying history and repudiating democratic rights: Floyd Abrams' attack on WikiLeaks

Workers and youth speak out at SEP (Australia) rallies in defence of Assange

New Zealand rally demands freedom for Julian Assange

Arts Review

Mexican musician, writer Armando Vega Gil commits suicide after #MeToo allegation

Socialist Equality Party

Twenty years since the death of Australian Trotskyist and Aboriginal worker, Comrade Yabu Bilyana

"He based his life on the ideals of justice, equality and human solidarity"

Yabu Bilyana addresses ICFI World Conference: "Genocide of indigenous peoples is still practiced throughout Australia"

This week in history

This week in history: April 15-21