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Colombia is still murdering communists and peasants
Having downed their own guns two years ago, Farc has denounced the continuing killings from the other side, writes JOHN HAYLETT
Colombian special forces — financed and trained by the US to fight socialist rebels
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
COLOMBIAN former liberation movement guerilla leaders Ivan Marquez and Oscar Montero have written an open letter this week to the country’s parliament, accusing President Ivan Duque’s government of reneging on the country’s peace agreement.
While reaffirming their belief in peace as the only way forward for Colombia, the two leaders of Farc — previously the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, now the People’s Alternative Forces of Colombia — accuse the United States-backed right-wing government of systematically destroying the peace accords concluded in late 2016 in Havana, with Cuba and Norway as guarantor countries.
The scale of their desperation can be measured by their self-criticism over how trustingly they participated in the peace process.
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