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
Latest editorial
The coup's over — now give back the gold
Outrageously, the Bank of England’s theft of Venezuelan gold that was part of British support for failed regime change has now been given a boost by a Supreme Court ruling, reports TIM YOUNG
Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela
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
IN a setback for President Maduro and the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), Britain’s Supreme Court has partly ruled in favour of self-declared “interim president” Juan Guaido over control of Venezuela’s £1.3 billion gold reserves held by the Bank of England.
The court decided that the British government has the right to unequivocally recognise Guaido as head of state, despite the fact that he controls nothing without the support of his US paymasters, intent on securing “regime change” in Venezuela.
Regime change in the South American country has long been an objective of US foreign policy. US hostility to Venezuela dates from the earliest days of Hugo Chavez’s presidency. Opposed to Chavez’s radical programme and his resistance to overbearing US influence in the region, the US supported a failed coup in April 2002 and subsequent efforts by local elites to oust Chavez.
Similar stories
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
The new ‘Bolivar’ Act expands the brutal sanctions programme as the Trump team signals a return to aggressive regime change and foreign mercenaries plot insurrection and assassination, writes TIM YOUNG