A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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We need wealth taxes on the rich, not Tory austerity 2.0
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the labour movement must put wealth taxes at the heart of its alternative to Tory cuts
LOUD AND CLEAR: People’s Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London on November 5, 2022
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
IT NORMALLY takes a few days for the bad news in a budget to come to light. But the impact of this week’s Autumn Statement was immediately clear: the Tories are planning yet another assault on the living standards of the vast majority.
The outlook for the general economy is eye-wateringly bad — but for the living standards of the vast majority of people it is horrific.
The British economy is now in a recession that’s expected to last over a year. Ours is the only one of the major economies not to have recovered its pre-pandemic levels. It isn’t set to do so until the end of 2024.
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