Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
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Chipping Norton doesn’t deserve Lord Greensill
The descendants of some of the legendary Chipping Norton strikers reflect on the events of 1913 and their aftermath, and the bitter irony of having the ‘Chipping Norton set’ and Lord Cameron associated with their town today
The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the war of extermination of Gaza, reports AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
General secretary of the YCL GEORGINA ANDREWS looks at the priorities of her organisation, from Palestine solidarity to trade unionism and fighting privatisation at a local level, ahead of its 52nd congress
LUKE FLETCHER fleshes out Plaid Cymru's plan for the revitalisation of Wales's economy
SO, David “Dodgy Dave” Cameron, ex-MP for Witney and star of a wonderful cover version of Pulp’s Common People (see bit.ly/CommonDave), is back — this time as “Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.”
In 1851, the day after a French coup d’etat by which Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, president of the Second Republic (and Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew), proclaimed himself emperor as Napoleon III, Engels declared in a letter to Marx: “It really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce.”
Marx followed by writing an account of the coup, his opening sentence also citing Hegel’s declaration that historic events and personages appear twice, continuing that Hegel forgot to add: “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
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