The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
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Trump and the neoreactionaries: the geopolitics of implosion
Trump and the neoreactionaries: the geopolitics of implosion
As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
By making Personal Independence Payments harder to access, Labour is creating another barrier for those already struggling with soaring care costs, workplace discrimination and prejudiced employers, argues RUTH HUNT
With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Ways of opposing the increasingly repressive measures from the British state against protesters will be discussed at the Arise Festival. BEN HAYES reports
The controversial legislation now threatens even more vulnerable people after the committee stage stripped away the key High Court safeguard that convinced many MPs to support it, writes Dr CAJETAN SKOWRONSKI
While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, argues KENNY COYLE
Despite appointing staunchly pro-Israel officials and approving billions in arms sales, the Trump administration faces a public increasingly viewing Palestine through a human rights lens, writes RAMZY BAROUD
THESE aren’t the changes Bob Dylan was calling for. His was a “get out of the way” message from a generation eager for more optimistic, transformative and inclusive change. There’s no such optimism to be found in today’s upheavals. Meanness and madness occupy the centre stage of global politics.
The bully-boy tactics of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk are creating a trail of destruction and insecurity that is rapidly trashing “the old world order.” Many would argue it needed trashing, but not to make way for something so much worse. This, though, is the world we are faced with and these are the politics that urgently need a-changin’.
In doing so, if there is one core message to be understood, particularly by Britain’s Labour government, it is this: the answer to a playground bully is never to suck up to them, never to go looking for smaller kids to pick on.
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