Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 3 May 2017

Perspective

Why did Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party lose the 2016 election?

Speaking in New York City on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton blamed misogynistic voters and Russian interference for her defeat in November, but recent poll data shows otherwise.

News & Analysis

In online poll, Mlenchon supporters reject both candidates in French runoff election

Unsubmissive France leader Jean-Luc Mlenchon is seeking to entrap opposition to both presidential candidates in the straitjacket of an alliance with Emmanuel Macron.

US sends B-1 strategic bombers over South Korea

Indian military given green light to strike Pakistan

Call by Labour right for a "progressive alliance" in UK election falls flat

House Republicans scramble for votes to pass draconian health care bill

Balch Springs, Texas, police kill unarmed 15-year-old boy

Writers' Guild of America reaches deal with major studios

Mass casualties in latest refugee tragedy off Libyan coast

Leadership contest begins in Spain's Socialist Party

Brazil's science march and the role of nationalism and the military

Socialist Alternative joins pro-war witch-hunt of Australian academic

Teachers oppose Australian Education Union sell-out deal at Victorian delegates meeting

New Zealand: Gender pay deal used to promote unions, government

Oppose the persecution of immigrants and refugees

Defend the 13 framed-up Indian Maruti Suzuki workers

The danger of nuclear war in North East Asia

International Committee of the Fourth International

PES public meeting in Paris calls for active boycott of French elections

Commentary

The New York Times worries about the high political cost of Obama's $400,000 speeches

Washington budgets an extra $120 million for guarding the Trumps

Arts

The Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932-2017) and the fate of the 60s generation

Workers Struggles

Anger grows among US telecom workers