New Today -- 26 April 2019

Perspective

Hillary Clinton's McCarthyite rant

In a column published Wednesday in the Washington Post, the former Democratic Party presidential candidate resurrects the conspiracy theories that were the staple of Cold War anticommunism.

News & Analysis

New study documents over 1,600 killed in US siege of Raqqa, Syria

The killings in Raqqa, like those in Mosul, Iraq, constituted massive war crimes committed in the so-called war against ISIS.

Former Vice President Biden officially enters Democratic presidential race

UN official visits Julian Assange, investigating Ecuador's illegal surveillance

Macron moves to prosecute journalists who revealed French arms sales in Yemen war

Leaked documents implicate French government in war crimes in Yemen

Mayor Emanuel intervenes to shut down Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike

Fed "pivot" promotes stock market surge

Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants during mass raid

UK: May unable to stem Tory crisis over Brexit, but still propped up by Corbyn

International finance backs Socialist Party in Spain's April 28 elections

GM continues tax avoidance schemes while it slashes thousands of jobs

University of Illinois at Chicago faculty announces deal on eve of strike

After contract rejection, Dow Chemical locks out 230 workers in Texas

Forty hospitalized after toxic chemical leak in Chicago suburb

Federal prosecutors indict Rochester Drug Co-Operative on drug trafficking charges

Ontario Tory government intensifies assault on workers' rights

Australian construction workers facing massive fines for striking

International Online May Day Rally 2019

Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka to hold May Day meeting in Colombo

SEP (Australia) Election Campaign

Australian mining magnate renews his fraudulent populist pitch

Commentary

The fraud of "progressive capitalism"

Arts Review

Paper Flags, Tehran: City of Love and BelmonteAlienation, loneliness and other problems

Free Assange and Manning

Germany: SGP European election campaign wins support for Julian Assange in Stuttgart

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa