Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
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Why Luke Akehurst is wrong to sneer at communists
Throughout the world Labour’s sister parties find their enemies not to the left but on the right, says NICK WRIGHT
Rob Griffiths, Monty Goldman and Martin Levy, representing the Communist Party of Britain, pledge their support of a Labour government in their election manifesto in 1997
The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the war of extermination of Gaza, reports AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
General secretary of the YCL GEORGINA ANDREWS looks at the priorities of her organisation, from Palestine solidarity to trade unionism and fighting privatisation at a local level, ahead of its 52nd congress
LUKE FLETCHER fleshes out Plaid Cymru's plan for the revitalisation of Wales's economy
I AM not highly skilled at using the image manipulation software tool Photoshop. In the primitive 1960s when I trained as a film and TV designer, colour TV had not been invented and Daleks could not yet climb stairs.
Thus I am certainly not as competent as the whiz kids who work in the BBC Newsnight graphics team.
It took me some time and experiments with several techniques to transform Jeremy Corbyn’s well-defined jaunty Donovan-style cap into a reasonable likeness of a Russian fur hat and place the thus manipulated image in a sufficiently low resolution to enable it to be projected on a Kremlin-sized backdrop without revealing the hat’s clear 1960s provenance.
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