A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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John McDonnell and Labour’s New Deal
McDonnell’s plan is not about filling in potholes. It is the wholesale transformation of how we live, work and protect, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
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
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
WHEN former US president Franklyn Roosevelt launched his 1930s New Deal into the United State’s depression-era politics, wealthy elites in the American Liberty League were incandescent. Their denunciations focused on a claim that Roosevelt had “betrayed his own class.”
For fairly obvious reasons, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell will not face the same denunciations. But be in no doubt, the neoliberal right are already after him.
The Tory Party HQ has unleashed a pack of house-trained journalists and back-bench MPs, hounding the shadow chancellor with “Trivial Pursuit” questions about the annual cost of servicing government borrowing.
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