SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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The past is disappearing and the future is bleak: a Philippine election reflection
Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jnr has won, using a tech-savvy social media rewrite of his parents’ dictatorship and a troll army to smear his closest competitor — DR TOM SYKES reports on a society seemingly unable to leave its own dark age
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr won the presidency earlier this month with 56 per cent of the vote
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
FILIPINOS have been suffering the Marcos dynasty’s love of spectacle since the mid-1960s when Ferdinand and Imelda took power, presenting themselves as a glamorous Hollywoodesque couple and promising a golden age of progress and prosperity.
But away from the vanity building projects and PR stunts like staged TV reports of Imelda donating homes to the poor, they built an iron-fisted dictatorship, dropped their country into masses of debt, murdered, maimed and jailed thousands and embezzled perhaps $11 billion from state coffers.
On May 9 2022, Ferdinand and Imelda’s son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr, took the presidency with 56 per cent of the vote, the highest share since his dad won in 1981 — when most other parties boycotted it.
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TOM SYKES explores how art has critiqued politics from Aristotle to Brecht, as Portsmouth Performers for Palestine prepares to showcase poetry, fiction and music reflecting on genocide, dispossession and colonialism at the White Swan Theatre
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