FIVE people went on trial in Germany today, accused of planning a far-right coup and plotting to kidnap the country’s health minister.
Four men and a woman are accused of treason and of founding or being members of a terrorist organisation.
Federal prosecutors say the group is linked to the Reich Citizens scene that rejects the legitimacy of Germany’s post-war constitution and has similarities to the Sovereign Citizens and QAnon movements in the United States.
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD


