A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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Who do you trust? Teachers and doctors? Or the Tory government?
Unions are right to say that sending kids back to school too early endangers the children, the teachers and the rest of society, says ROBERT POOLE
Primary schoolchildren in class. The government has failed to reassure teachers it is capable of reopening schools safely
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
TEACHERS say it’s too soon to open schools. Parents say it’s too soon to open schools and now doctors say it’s too soon to open schools.
The Tories and the right-wing press say it’s time to open schools. Who do you trust?
At the crux of the matter is trust. After years of brutal austerity, we simply don’t trust the motives of the Tory government.
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