Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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Racism, police violence and capitalism
The role of the police cannot be separated from its central function of protecting wealth and privilege, ZOLTAN ZIGEDY explains
Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
DONALD TRUMP chastising governors and mayors over their response to the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd was perversely appropriate.
While Trump is invoking the “law and order” mantra of racist politicians in his rant, the complicity of local and state authorities in police criminality cannot be denied.
Police violence against African-Americans is as old and persistent as the history of the first Africans brought to the New World as slaves.
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