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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Official: two-thirds of US want major political change
A new poll shows record numbers think that their leaders are corrupt, have little faith in the political system or want more direct influence. Time for the left to unpeg its nose and ride this wave of popular disgust, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Like earlier polls that showed a decline in Cold-War imposed hostility to socialism, the new poll shows that the image disseminated by smug elites and media hacks of the masses as ignorant and conservative is a myth
Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
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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Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
IF you sometimes think that US politicians are aliens descended from another galaxy, you are not alone.
A recent Pew poll conducted in December 2020 shows that 67 per cent of those surveyed agreed that “most politicians are corrupt.”
While the media and the two-party system have done their best to divide citizens into two warring tribes standing before an unbridgeable chasm, scorn for corrupt politicians transcends that divide.
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