The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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How Mexico crushed neoliberalism and the right
Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America’s TIM YOUNG looks at Morena’s landslide, where rolling back privatisation, boosting welfare and reclaiming national resources has transformed the country and rallied huge support
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
ON October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum, the Morena party’s successor to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will start her term in office.
She was elected on June 2, when the right wing in Mexico suffered a historic defeat and she won the presidential election by a landslide margin of over 32 points, becoming the first woman and first person of Jewish descent to be elected president.
The election saw Sheinbaum receiving the highest number of votes ever recorded for a candidate, surpassing Amlo’s record of 30.1 million votes. In total, she achieved just under 36 million votes.
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