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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‘We want the people of the whole world to stand by the side of the people of Burma’
KENNY COYLE talks to a representative of the Communist Party of Burma about its current priorities in the wake of the coup d’etat earlier this year
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
IN THE 1930s, a group of young, educated Myanmar radicals, who became known as the Thakins, emerged within the broader nationalist movement Dobama Asiayone (We Burmans Association).
Marxist ideas and literature had circulated in British-ruled Burma since the early 1930s, often as a result of Myanmar students in Britain making contact with the British Communist Party and the League Against Imperialism. A Red Dragon Book Club was set up in 1937 modelled on Britain’s Left Book Club.
In August 1939, a small group of the Thakins, including Aung San, held the founding congress of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB).
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