As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Fighting Trump 2.0 demands no-compromise politics
Corporate power would have stayed intact whether Trump or Harris won, and the Palestine genocide is endorsed by both ‘sides’ of mainstream politics — what we need instead is real, open leftism, argues ROGER McKENZIE
SHOWMEN: Donald Trump
and JD Vance clown for the
crowd using swords to cut a
cake at the unsurprisingly
gaudy inauguration ball
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
THE re-election of the far-right representative of the corporate elite, Donald Trump, to the presidency of the United States, has sent many into a tailspin.
Some in Britain have told me that if they had the opportunity in November to vote in the US presidential election they would have most certainly voted for the Democrat Kamala Harris as the lesser of two evils.
On one level I do get this but for me, any party that supports the genocide against the Palestinians and promotes the interests of the military-industrial complex does not get my vote — and didn’t in Britain last year.
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