As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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US policy on Venezuela: All roads lead to US military invasion
The people of Venezuela need our solidarity more than ever, says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
On a recent NEU delegation, STEVE HANDFORD’s eyes were opened to the educational achievements of the socialist island and the need for Britain to take a leaf out of its book
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
WORLD corporate media propaganda notwithstanding, it is abundantly clear that US aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has nothing to do with human rights, humanitarian aid, democracy or the wellbeing of its people.
President Donald Trump and his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pence, Pompeo, Bolton and Abrams) have thrown away any pretence that altruistic objectives animate their persistent efforts to bring about “regime change” in Venezuela: the objective is US control over the planet’s largest deposits of oil (and over huge deposits of gold, coltan, thorium, diamonds, aluminium, iron, water and other commodifiable raw materials that would come in very handy to the US’s crumbling and declining economy).
Ever since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, the US has made every effort to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
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