A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Latin America: standing in solidarity against right-wing reaction
Revelations that Britain has been selling spyware to Honduras show us that international solidarity matters, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
Protesters unveil a banner reading No To the Dictatorship in Honduras last month
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
RECENT investigations have revealed that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been allowing the sale of spyware to the hard-right, anti-democratic government in Honduras.
The regime is currently engaged in a brutal crackdown on protests.
The Honduran state has received hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of British spyware that it has used to monitor, disrupt and prevent anti-government campaigning.
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