CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to CHRIS SMALLS, who helped set up the Amazon Labor Union, on how weak leadership debilitates union activism and dilutes their purpose
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The rabble have been cleared away in DC but don't think the chaos is over: the world's greatest superpower is in rapid decline and neither Trump's tribalism or Biden's return to 'neoliberal normality' will reverse this, writes JOHN WIGHT
After 58 fishermen were lost in the so-called ‘Triple Trawler Tragedy,’ four women led a grassroots revolt that forced the government to overhaul Britain’s deadly deep-sea fishing industry. MAT COWARD tells the story
The president is steering Argentina toward ever-deeper dependence on US capital, while slashing budgets at home – with calamitous results for the environment and the economy. BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
Ministers say scrapping Ofwat will toughen oversight of scandal-hit water firms. But merging environmental and economic regulation and openly courting private investors suggest the failures of privatisation are set to continue. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
The Starmer-linked group’s hiring of a lobbying firm to peddle a bogus ‘Russian hack’ smear against journalists has erupted into scandal — but outrage has surfaced only because the target was the mainstream press, says SOLOMON HUGHES
John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
TRUMP is the US’s Nero. His elevation to the office of president in 2016 was not the aberration his liberal detractors argued. Rather it was a symptom of US imperial decline, the first seeds of which were planted with the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975, setting in train a process that was deferred by the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s after Moscow’s own Vietnam in Afghanistan in the 1980s ended in similar fashion.
The invasion of Iraq by US military forces and its British ally came over a decade into the US’s unipolar moment, when imbued with triumphalism and End of History hubris, the George W Bush neocon administration set about shaping the world in its own image with the objective of establishing a new Pax America.
Iraq was intended as the first of what was envisaged would be a domino effect to assert complete dominance over the strategically vital Middle East in conjunction with its Israeli and Saudi allies, thus injecting an increasingly untenable hyper-capitalist economic model with the invaluable input of new natural resources and the expanded output offered by new markets.
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