Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 4 April 2018

Perspective

Trump proposes to deploy troops to US-Mexico border

The deployment of the military on US soil to arrest or deter immigrants raises the specter of martial law and violates the basic democratic principle of posse comitatus.

News & Analysis

UK's Porton Down military lab head: Russia not identified as source of Skripal poisoning

The laboratory's statements explode the British government's utilisation of the Skripals' apparent poisoning to ratchet up NATO's provocations against Moscow.

Strikes by railway workers and aircrews paralyze France

Thousands of Kentucky teachers rally to oppose cuts

Teachers across the UK vote for industrial action

Germany: Public service trade union announces extension of protest strikes

One dead, three injured in shooting at YouTube HQ in Northern California

As Trump talks of bringing troops home, Washington escalates aggression from Libya to Afghanistan

Sunday Times uses dirty tricks, slander and lies to tar Labour's pro-Corbyn left as anti-Semitic

German state prosecutor calls for extradition of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont

Spanish parties unite to demand repression against Catalan nationalists

The new traditions of Germany's armed forces: Hero memorialisation, militarism and war

Regional governor Tuleev resigns in wake of Kemerovo fire in Russia

University of Wisconsin Stevens Point students, faculty stage sit-in to protest cuts to humanities

After election, Costa Rica's ruling party announces austerity-driven "National Unity Government"

Vietnam: Ruling party's anti-corruption purge continues

Commentary

Fifty years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Arts Review

The controversy surrounding the Roseanne television series

Socialist Equality Party

Halt the thuggery of non-academic union bureaucrats against WSWS reporters

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: The Americas