Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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Coronavirus and the war on the working class
Capitalists and the ‘concerned billionaires’ of the world are clamouring to ignore the health professionals and restore the accumulation process immediately, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
A worker sanitises shopping carts during the coronavirus outbreak, at a Trader Joe's in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles
Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
ACCORDING to Bloomberg News, the billionaire hedge fund and private equity fund managers who met President Donald on Tuesday March 24 “are getting impatient with the national economic shutdown caused by coronavirus…”
They urged that workers be released to return to their jobs from the government lockdown.
The “concerned” billionaires, along with the president, do not want “the cure to be worse than the problem.”
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Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20