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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Tipping point or turning point: the choice is still ours
We face a crisis like no other, from bubonic plague outbreaks to an imminent 3 billion climate refugees. We have the solution and it’s to use less and waste less – what we lack is the leadership to get us to the promised land, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Endgame: the UN needs $10bn to avoid 265 million starving this year and climate scientists warn that soon three billion face summers “too hot for humans”
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
WE are in a bad place, a really bad place. The IMF predicts that the Covid-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5 per cent this year, with a cumulative loss of around $9 trillion.
Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) records a “lockdown” economic collapse of over 20 per cent and predicts an annual economic contraction of over 12 per cent.
Some 650,000 British workers have already been dropped from official payrolls. Eleven million more wait in the wings, on “furloughed” wages that come to an end in August.
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