MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Sunak offers Italy’s ‘post-fascists’ the spirit of Thatcher
In a fawning speech to Giorgia Meloni that evoked the Iron Lady, Britain’s PM has indicated that immigration will be the hill the Tories die on, if only to shore up their dwindling core, writes NICK WRIGHT
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
A NEW deification of Margaret Thatcher is well under way.
Following on from Keir Starmer’s adoration of the woman who he claims renewed Britain’s entrepreneurial spirit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has now compared Italy’s “post-fascist” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the Iron Lady.
Sunak chose the annual Atreju festival of Azioni Giovani, the youth organisation of Meloni’s governing Fratelli d’Italia party to laud Thatcher’s “radicalism on illegal immigration.”
It is often difficult to discern the core beliefs of the very rich when they take to electoral politics, if only because they have much to lose if the layers of mystification which obscure the connections between wealth and power — necessary adjuncts to bourgeois rule — are revealed.
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