Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Colombia is still murdering communists and peasants
Having downed their own guns two years ago, Farc has denounced the continuing killings from the other side, writes JOHN HAYLETT
Colombian special forces — financed and trained by the US to fight socialist rebels
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
COLOMBIAN former liberation movement guerilla leaders Ivan Marquez and Oscar Montero have written an open letter this week to the country’s parliament, accusing President Ivan Duque’s government of reneging on the country’s peace agreement.
While reaffirming their belief in peace as the only way forward for Colombia, the two leaders of Farc — previously the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, now the People’s Alternative Forces of Colombia — accuse the United States-backed right-wing government of systematically destroying the peace accords concluded in late 2016 in Havana, with Cuba and Norway as guarantor countries.
The scale of their desperation can be measured by their self-criticism over how trustingly they participated in the peace process.
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