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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Close our schools now
If we are going to have a second lockdown we need to do it properly — and that means closing schools, colleges and universities, argues ROBERT POOLE
If we are going to have a lockdown — and we should have had one two weeks ago — we need to do it properly and that means closing schools, colleges and universities
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
WHEN I was asked to write this monthly column it did cross my mind that there might be times when I might struggle to fill the column inches. It seems now that the opposite is the case.
I’ve just binned the first draft of a diatribe against the callous Tory school-dinner-lifters as news comes in of a second lockdown. Though if I had been more conscientious perhaps I should have written this piece in the summer and filed it away in anticipation as it was so blindingly obvious what was going to happen.
Nadine Dorries would disagree of course, she said that only “a crystal ball” could have predicted the need for a second lockdown. Or perhaps only Sage or Independent Sage or every armchair scientist having a socially distanced pint down the pub or my four-year-old in between shooting imaginary webs in his Halloween Spiderman costume could have predicted it.
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