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The Musk-Trump demolition derby begins
Musk’s ‘Doge’ is already dismantling institutions and destroying lives with shocking rapidity, while legal challenges and protest movements finally begin to mount against the chaos and cruelty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Anti-cuts protesters rally on Capitol Hill in support of federal workers, Washington, February 17 2025
After 58 fishermen were lost in the so-called ‘Triple Trawler Tragedy,’ four women led a grassroots revolt that forced the government to overhaul Britain’s deadly deep-sea fishing industry. MAT COWARD tells the story
The president is steering Argentina toward ever-deeper dependence on US capital, while slashing budgets at home – with calamitous results for the environment and the economy. BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
Ministers say scrapping Ofwat will toughen oversight of scandal-hit water firms. But merging environmental and economic regulation and openly courting private investors suggest the failures of privatisation are set to continue. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
The Starmer-linked group’s hiring of a lobbying firm to peddle a bogus ‘Russian hack’ smear against journalists has erupted into scandal — but outrage has surfaced only because the target was the mainstream press, says SOLOMON HUGHES
John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
“ALL that is solid melts into air,” wrote Karl Marx. In the US today, all that was once solid is being smashed into pieces.
We are staring at the shattered remains of what was an already deeply imperfect democracy. Institutions are being dismantled, lives and livelihoods destroyed. The illusion once known as the American dream has melted into air along with the financial and psychological wellbeing of millions of working people.
The man wielding the axe is Elon Musk, the de facto US president. If there were any remaining doubts about that, they were dispelled at the first gathering of Trump’s full cabinet this week when he deferred to his billionaire puppet-master to open the meeting.
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