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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Let’s remember the dead and fight for a society fit for the living
As the bodies stack up, the slogan for International Workers’ Memorial Day — “remember the dead and fight for the living” — feels even more poignant than usual this year, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
NHS staff observe the minute's silence on Workers' Memorial Day this week
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
AS THE daily death toll mounts, government failures in its response to coronavirus are exposed more and more. Workers on the front line have paid the price with their lives, as have far too many others.
Yet, appallingly, the Prime Minister on his return to work spoke of the “apparent success” of his government in tackling coronavirus. That’s despite Britain being on track to have one of the world’s highest death tolls.
Adjusted for population, we have four times more deaths than Germany, over 60 times more deaths than South Korea and over 75 times those in Australia and New Zealand. If this is success what would failure look like?
The reality is that the government has been behind the curve from the start. Failure after failure has cost lives — and the Labour Party and wider movement must be clear in pointing this out if we are to secure the changes needed to prevent further loss of life.
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