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
HOW did socialist Germany’s Ministry of State Security replace the Gestapo as the bogey man to frighten liberals out of their skins?
And why is it that the confected reputation of an organisation set up by anti-Nazi activists and International Brigade veterans to defend socialism and working-class power is mobilised to frighten socialists out of their politics?
Since the dissolution of socialist Germany, brand management has turned the Stasi into a media trope for lazy journalists whenever the hyper-individualism of contemporary capitalism meets resistance.

Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT

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Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT

From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT