Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Bert vs the dismantled state
The draconian extension of police powers is disaster capitalism creating a new control framework for the corporate feudalism that will follow Covid-19 — and let them rule over the ruins of a climate-changed world. It's time to hit the streets, writes ALAN SIMPSON
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
WE do ourselves no favours by treating the current Policing Bill just as an outrageous assault on a public right to protest. Of course it is — but the violence targeted towards the police in Bristol (and the preceding violence by police themselves towards peaceful protesters) masks the scale of the assault on civil liberties currently underway. It is this bigger picture that should worry us most.
Disaster capitalism is racing into “surveillance and control” politics. This provides the government with cover for its continuing addiction to all the problems that created the current crisis. If the government plan succeeds, life will become immeasurably harder — for all of us.
The whole of Britain longs for coronavirus constraints to come to an end. Spring is coming. We want to say hello to each other in public again, to socialise in ways we used to regard as normal.
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