Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

DESPITE two crushing by-election defeats, and the resignation of his party chairman, Boris Johnson remains undaunted.
Strutting the streets of the Rwanda South constituency, Johnson insists that support for him is still strong. Elsewhere it looks quite different.
The loss of the Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield seats was particularly crushing. Both of these seats were pro-Brexit areas, but Johnson’s USP (unique selling point) as their Brexit-boyo has also collapsed. As the economic realities of Brexit implosion sink in, even the die-hards are going silent.

Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’

ALAN SIMPSON warns of a dystopian crossroads where Trump’s wrecking ball meets AI-driven alienation, and argues only a Green New Deal can repair our fractured society before techno-feudalism consumes us all
