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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So the poor don't suffer: the return to school
Fines and token funding aren't what disadvantaged pupils need — it's structural change, writes ROBERT POOLE
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
CONGRATULATIONS everyone, the crisis is over. Well, that’s what the government would like us to believe. The race is now on to get everyone back to normal as quickly as possible and get the economy moving again. That of course means that pubs must be open from 6am every day so we can all drink for victory and that schools must reopen so parents can get back to work before they get addicted to furlough.
It doesn’t seem to matter that we still have one of the highest death rates in the world nor that the recent spike in cases in Leicester is being driven by those under 19. The Prime Minister has spoken (or maybe Dom) and the reopening of schools must take place. This is so the poor don’t “suffer,” claims Gavin Williamson. I am not sure if this is meant as a warning or a threat.
The reopening of schools is being sold to the nation as being driven, not out of a desire for ensuring the profits of business are protected, but out of a desire to look after disadvantaged pupils. The irony being that this is the same group of pupils that the government has not cared a jot about for the past 10 years and whose myriad problems it is in fact to blame for.
This is also the same group the government planned not to feed over the summer — until it was forced into an embarrassing U-turn by Marcus Rashford, trade unions and the Labour Party.
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