BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Obstacles to the peace process in Colombia
Farc has accused the Duque government of intentionally impeding the peace agreement, including the re-integration to civil society of thousands of former guerillas, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Riot police clash with protesters in Bogota, Colombia
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
THE Farc political party and other opposition congress members have criticised the Colombian government over a lack of political will to implement the peace process after Interior Minister Nancy Patricia Gutierrez said that the agreement had “semi-failed.”
It comes as the Farc announced that 185 former guerillas in the re-incorporation process have been murdered since the peace agreement was signed in November 2016.
At a forum in Bogota on January 28, Gutierrez blamed the Farc for failing to comply with the peace agreement even though the United Nations and other international observers have repeatedly verified the Farc’s fulfilment of its obligations, despite the slow implementation of the agreement.
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