With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Why the right is on the rise in Denmark
A splintered right wing might become a mass movement with significant working-class support by harnessing farmers’ discontent and longstanding opposition to the EU, the Danish Communist Party's KAREN SUNDS tells Morten Larsen
KEITH FLETT looks back 50 years to when the Iron Lady was elected Tory leader…
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH agues that much as social media are presently guilty of fanning hostilities, the roots of it lie with decades of xenophobic narratives peddled by politicians and the traditional media
ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
In Britain we may have election fever but Europe is going to the polls too — with the far right predicted to do well across the continent in elections to the European Parliament from June 6-9.
With our sister papers Junge Welt of Germany and Arbejderen of Denmark, we compiled a series of articles looking at the nature of the far-right threat across different European countries, of which this is the fourth. We would like to thank Junge Welt for organising the series and translation.
IF THERE isn’t a broad, cross-party opposition movement to the EU to organise the fight against the social spending cuts from Brussels and gather the people’s anger and frustration, “then it will be the right who will organise the resistance.”
Karen Sunds, chair of the Danish Communist Party’s (KP) EU committee is convinced of this, she warns Danish daily Arbejderen.
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