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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Ben Cowles spoke to JACOB BERKSON, one of a transnational team of activists who monitor refugee boats in the Mediterranean, pressing the European coastguard to save drowning migrants
ON CALL: Jacob Berkson is one of a team that staffs an acitvist hotline for refugee boats in distress
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.
AT LEAST 260 people, including pregnant women and children, set off from war-torn Libya a few days before Good Friday on four overcrowded and unseaworthy boats.
Only two boats made it to safety.
Around 71 people made it all the way to Italy. Forty-seven others were picked up the Basque rescue ship Aita Maria after spending four days at sea. They were forced to wait six more days before Italy would take them in.
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