As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
French workers unbowed in their struggle for justice
The momentum behind a wave of strikes and protests over pension reforms shows no sight of abating, writes DENNIS BROE
Aux armes, citoyens: Trade unionists march in Marseille
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
TIME magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its person of the year last week, but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to counter the effects of an ever more rapacious neoliberal capitalism, the real person of the year who epitomises this moment may be the French public worker, on strike now for over two weeks to save the French pension system.
People’s movements in Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Chile, Colombia and Bolivia after the coup have all challenged their various governments and made local demands for equality, with the movements often springing from what seems almost negligible offences as workers in Chile took to the streets after a four cent increase in metro fares.
In each case the momentary cause of the uprising was a last straw and brought on, as in Chile, by what has been seen as rewarding the rich while taking more money from those who can least afford it.
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