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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
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
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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