The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
Please tell us it isn’t so. Is there no skulduggery to which the miscreants running the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela will not stoop?
When Washington Times journalist Guy Taylor declared that President Nicolas Maduro was “clinging to power in a country on the edge of becoming a failed state,” people across the US could hardly disagree.
Forget the high crime rate or shortages of essentials such as toilet paper brought on by corporate hoarding and cross-border smuggling, but when McDonald’s franchises run out of potatoes for their world-infamous French fries, the situation is beyond serious.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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
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



