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Mexico forces Trump to backpedal
Mexico’s unflinching stand has earned praise from across Latin America and the world, writes DAVID RABY
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum
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DOUG NICHOLLS welcomes a turning point at this year’s Congress, where many motions call for a co-ordinated plan to revive British industry, a perspective outlined in his new book
HOPE VIRGO of campaign Dump the Scales warns MPs voting today they should be alert to the threat legalised assisted death poses to people with eating disorders
The Together Alliance is hosting two summits, North and South, to build power and plan action against the scourge of racism peddled by the right. DANIEL KEBEDE urges mass participation
The drift toward militarisation in Europe is not inevitable, left-wing and peace movements can preserve sovereignty and prevent war, says DÁIRE HUGHES MP
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
DONALD TRUMP’S loud-mouthed threats to all and sundry are enough to cause anxiety and panic around the world, and especially in near neighbours of the declining superpower he is about to inherit from that master of senile hypocrisy, Joe Biden.
Panic and anxiety are precisely what the orange fascist wants to incite.
The recipe worked like a charm with that pathetic excuse for a national leader, PM Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose craven uninvited trip to Mar-a-Lago to plead with Trump not to slap tariffs on his northern satellite led to brutal humiliation, with the CBC (Canada’s BBC) producing a vicious satirical sketch of Trudeau being treated as a servile puppy.
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