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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Dealing with ‘compost confusion’
Don't be put off by composting. It's as simple or complicated as you wish to make it, writes MATT COWARD
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
THE old world is dying, as Comrade Gramsci memorably told us, and the new world struggles to be born — and one of the minor side-effects of this is that many people are turning to growing their own vegetables and fruit for the first time.
And many of them will at some stage hit the wall known to neophyte gardeners as “compost confusion.”
The first point to grasp is that the word compost is used to describe two different things. You can buy bags of compost from real or online garden shops. That’s used for sowing seeds into in small pots or trays, to be planted out when they’re bigger, or for filling up large pots and tubs which will be the permanent homes of plants.
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