Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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Conservatives have adapted to new realities that liberals don't understand - but the left must try to
The Right in the US, Britain and elsewhere has read correctly the mood of the disenfranchised. ZOLTAN ZIGEDY offers an analysis
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Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
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Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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MARX famously wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” But sometimes, even an encore leaves many people dumbstruck.
Most commentators who fill up the opinion pages of the national media of record are touting the failure of the British Labour Party in the recent elections as a portent of the “disaster” that would await the Democrats should they nominate Bernie Sanders or Sanders-lite to run against President Donald Trump. That, they believe, would be the farce that Jeremy Corbyn’s loss portends.
But there are a few thoughtful heads, wiser thinkers, in the media who better understand history’s often more subtle messages.
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