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
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The architecture of Irish partition is disintegrating
The people of the Irish Republic and their government have had a rude lesson in the politics of inter-imperialist rivalry, says NICK WRIGHT
Graffiti reading ‘No Irish Sea border’ Stroud Street in Belfast
The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the war of extermination of Gaza, reports AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
General secretary of the YCL GEORGINA ANDREWS looks at the priorities of her organisation, from Palestine solidarity to trade unionism and fighting privatisation at a local level, ahead of its 52nd congress
LUKE FLETCHER fleshes out Plaid Cymru's plan for the revitalisation of Wales's economy
GEORGE OSBORNE, the former Tory chancellor of the Exchequer, has downsized his portfolio career and gone to work for a boutique bank.
His parting shot as he vacated the editor’s desk at the Evening Standard was a reflection on the long decline of British imperialism centred on what he characterises as the errors and omissions of a ruling class to which by birth, education, wealth and high offices of state he is wedded.
In Osborne’s conspectus it was the policy failures of the Lord North, Britain’s premier at the time, that led to the loss of the North American colonies and similar missteps which weakened resistance to Irish home rule.
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