A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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Let’s put a windfall tax on companies profiting from the Covid-19 crisis
We need to ensure that this crisis is not paid for on the backs of the working class, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Care office in London protesting over Serco's handling of the test, track and trace system
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
IN the Spending Review, the Tories made it clear how they are going to respond to the worst recession in 300 years — by paying for it on the backs of the working class.
The government’s announcements amounted to a new era of class war, with a real-terms pay cut for millions of public-sector workers, the benefits of millions — largely sick and disabled people — to rise by just 37p a week, promises about increasing the minimum wage abandoned and deep cuts to many areas of public services planned.
Hundreds of thousands have already lost their jobs, with young people hit hardest — but it’s going to get a lot worse unless we succeed in the fight of our lives.
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