MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Venezuela: marked progress after years of instability
Despite the West’s economic sanctions and brazen attempts to enact a coup, Maduro has stuck to ‘Chavismo’ and focused resources on people – and now the world is catching up, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
A woman in the shirt of the ruling PSUV party protests over US attempts to isolate allies of Venezuela’s government with economic sanctions, Caracas 2019
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
WITH house 4,400,000 handed over on December 29 to another happy family, President Nicolas Maduro gave tangible confirmation that 2022 was a positive year for Bolivarian Venezuela.
Between 1999 and 2010 Venezuela’s government built 593,198 homes and for the 2011-15 period 701,250 more, making a total of 1,294,448 new houses for the poor.
This means 3,105,552 houses were built between 2015-22, double the amount built in the preceding 1999-2015 period in half the number of years.
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