Cuba, despite the privations, remains a beacon of sovereignty and resistance to imperialism, writes BERNARD REGAN
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The alternatives to austerity are obvious
You face austerity because banks are being feather-bedded, not because the state is 'running out of money.' It doesn’t have to be this way, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Honduras may not be as much in the spotlight as Venezuela and Cuba right now, but Trump's circling vultures are making their move. JOHN PERRY reports
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
With the illegitimate partition of Palestine, and inflicting ongoing terror on Palestinians, Israel and the US continue to smash down the basic principles of democracy
Despite opposition from Greenland’s people and Denmark, Washington intends to control the Arctic territory one way or another. Strategic dominance, mineral wealth and military power are the driving forces at play, writes ROGER McKENZIE
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
HAROLD WILSON said that a week is a long time in politics. No doubt that is true. But the Autumn Statement delivered by Jeremy Hunt is likely to dominate politics and the economy for the next two years — and possibly well beyond — unless there is a radical alternative proposed.
This is because the scale and structure of the austerity imposed are quite beyond what we have seen before. Economists tell us that in sheer size, this set of measures was much larger than the austerity imposed by David Cameron and George Osborne.
At the same time, it is also planned to be much longer, with many of the measures postponed outright until after the next election and only beginning in 2025. Any claim that this is not a deepening of austerity is sheer nonsense.
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