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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Is it just coincidence that the Extradition Bill emerged in the middle of a US trade war with China, asks KENNY COYLE
A woman carries the British flag as she joins other protesters who stormed the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong earlier this month
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
ONE of the traditional weaknesses of the British left has been its inconsistent responses to international crises.
This becomes particularly acute when British imperialism is itself strategically involved and the pressures of public opinion shaped by the Establishment media are felt most heavily.
While there have always been heroic episodes of internationalism in the labour and peace movements, the dominance of liberal rather than anti-imperialist perspectives has been a constant factor in the battle of ideas on the left, combined with the reality that the labour movement’s right wing has always aligned its interests with those of the British ruling class at home and abroad.
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