Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
Eyes around the world will be on elections in Brazil, tomorrow, between Jair Bolsonaro of the far right and Fernando Haddad who is the left-wing Workers’ Party (PT) candidate.
Bolsonaro had a commanding lead of more than 16 per cent in the first round.
Alarm bells rang around the world this week when Bolsonaro chillingly said that if he was elected “leftists will have to... leave the country or go to jail,” adding “it will be a clean up, the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history,” and that “reds will be banished from the homeland.”
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE



