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STUDENTS burnt a portrait of Swaziland’s absolutist monarch King Mswati III on Sunday night as pro-democracy demonstrations showed no sign of subsiding.
They gathered at the Luyengo campus of the University of Eswatini — the new name for the landlocked southern African nation — demanding Mswati’s abdication.
A picture of the monarch was set alight to loud cheers as students danced around the fire, singing songs and raising slogans calling for freedom.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
