Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the threat of far-right extremism is resurging – the lessons of history demand unity, organisation and resistance, argues SABBY DHALU
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What next for the Sahel region?
While recognising that Africans must chart their own course for the future, we must not fall into the trap of believing that throwing the French and United States out of the region will mean the people will automatically benefit, cautions ROGER McKENZIE
REGIME CHANGE: Burkinabe military officer Ibrahim Traore, who has been the interim leader of Burkina Faso since the September 30 2022 coup d’etat
On Holocaust Memorial Day STEVE SILVER warns that the ‘double genocide’ theory and modern ‘revisionism’ are not just historical errors, but calculated tools for rehabilitating fascist ideology
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR
From the radical promise of early land reform to today’s cautious Community Wealth Building Bill, Scotland’s Parliament has lost sight of its founding ambition to shift power and ownership, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP
Journalists and opposition politicians have described the decision to remove TeleSur from national TV programming as censorship against alternative and critical journalism, reports PABLO MERIGUET
THE global North has already lost to the global South. It is over.
Things will never return to the days of a load of (mainly) white blokes from a handful of rich countries sitting around a table and passing judgement on more than 80 per cent of the world.
Even the most sycophantic of global majority nation leaders have realised that the zero-sum game of complete subservience to the United States and its posse will no longer play at home.
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