Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
As Minneapolis burns, what can the Thatcher years teach us about combating Trump and Johnson?
With the US president fanning the flames of violence in Minneapolis, DIANE ABBOTT MP looks at the history of scapegoating and finger-pointing at ‘the enemy within’

MINNEAPOLIS and other US cities are in flames after the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed and immobilised black man in police custody.
He is alleged to have committed fraud. Campaigners have contrasted his treatment with a number of US serial killers who all made it safely from apprehension to arrest to the court room without injury, who were all white.
Donald Trump has intervened in the process, effectively encouraging a shoot-to-kill on unarmed civilians.
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