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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.
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
