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Why have there been four years of non-stop protests in Haiti?
VIJAY PRASHAD explains the how corruption in the Haitian elite combined with US sanctions on Venezuela, outside sponsorship of local neoliberal politicians and Western NGOs displacing the state and has led to an explosion of rage
Protesters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022.
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
A CYCLE of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and — despite the pandemic — has carried on since then.
The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela — due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the US — could no longer ship discounted oil to Haiti through the Petrocaribe scheme. Fuel prices soared by up to 50 per cent.
On August 14 2018, film-maker Gilbert Mirambeau Jnr tweeted a photograph of himself blindfolded and holding a sign that read: “Where did the Petrocaribe money go?”
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