EMILY THORNBERRY was labelled an “ideologically confused mess” yesterday after lumping Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro in with far-right politicians.
Speaking to delegates at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton, the shadow foreign secretary said that the Venezuelan president was “plunging Venezuela into ever-deeper division and misery.”
She also placed him alongside far-right world leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, as well as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth



