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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Mapping black distrust of the police
Labour’s leader has weighed in behind the thin blue line — but he needs to understand we live in a society with record levels of scepticism towards law enforcement, says NICK WRIGHT
Police carry out spot checks at Leicester railway station
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
KEIR STARMER’s reaction to the demand by Black Lives Matter campaigners — that controls on the funding of police forces be utilised to modify the way the police operate — fell squarely into the range of responses that senior law enforcement officials offer when the operations of the state’s coercive apparatus are challenged.
Faced with a popular demand that confronts the code of inviolability with which state institutions cloak themselves, the former Director of Public Prosecutions naturally thought such an outlandish idea was “nonsense.”
In fact, such controls on public expenditure are quite routine. Conservative and Labour governments routinely use funding as a way of compelling local authorities to operate in ways the State prefers.
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