Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Idaho: the youth against the radical right
BEN CLINTON looks at the wave of ultraconservative, often violent activism sweeping the Republican Party fringes without its condemnation — and one state where young people are leading the charge against this dark phenomenon
GENESIS OF THE RIGHT: Outside during the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021 attack on the building
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Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IN WESTERN politics, the idea of young people being at the forefront, the trendsetters of opposition to neo-authoritarianism, is an increasingly real proposition. As formerly leftist parties in Britain and the EU sink back into centrist pragmatism, young activists are gaining more and more traction.
Democracy is faltering in the US due to conspiracy theorists, deranged Donald Trump supporters and militia groups. One state is experiencing this on a truly explicit scale — Idaho.
Idaho has never been the most liberal state on the US map. In every presidential election since 1968, it has voted for the Republican candidate by a wide margin. Yet, what many are experiencing within the state now is nothing short of an insurgency.
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