By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Is the Caribbean even ready for Brics?
These rich islands still have close political and economic relationships with the nations that enslaved them — is it any wonder truly independent nations in Africa are considered for Brics first, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Brics is about creating new rules of the game. By definition, this means not allowing the old bullying tactics that the colonialists adopt to seep into the work of Brics.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
THE expansion of the Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to include Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia has rightly received a lot of column inches.
It has given the millions of people in the global South who are fed up with the bullying behaviour of the US and the other former colonial powers some reasons to be optimistic and, indeed, to be just a little bit cheerful.
Those of us in the belly of the beast who work as dissidents against the behaviours of the neocolonialists also have much to organise in support of the resistance and fightback from the global South.
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