Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
IT’S at times like these that a political commentator, albeit an exceptionally jaded and cynical one such as your scribe, looks around and sees that the majority of the population are, if not in the same boat, then on the same downstream confluence that passes for a river.
Each day the political hack has to sit through interminable bullshit and — if they are given to do so — take a side. This week everybody is in the same situation — voting for a slightly less odious option while holding their nose and trying not to cry from sheer frustration.
As it may have mentioned before, this column is an adherent of the philosophy expounded by legendary parliamentary sketch writer Norman Shrapnel — crazy name, crazy guy — when it comes to politicos, that to meet them “could only serve to dull my hatred.”
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