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 them eat what? Free school meals and the new world order
Thanks to Marcus Rashford the national conversation is about food politics — now we must start making the connections between what we eat, how we farm and the most effective ways of taking carbon out of the atmosphere, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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
GOVERNMENTS fall more often from let-downs than lock-downs. That’s why Marcus Rashford’s “end child food-poverty” campaign has thrown British politics into a tiz. Who would have thought a young, black footballer would provide the leadership politics seems to lack?
Although Rashford consistently says “this is not about politics: it is about humanity,” everyone understands the umbilical links.
Knee-deep in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rashford’s free school meals campaign stepped in to confront another pandemic; child food poverty in Britain. Boris Johnson’s government may have spurned the call to extend free school-meals vouchers to spring 2021, but the issue is anything but dead. If anything, it opened up a chasm between the government and the people.
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