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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The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: we still demand a full apology
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
NOT A FULL APOLOGY: Then prime minister David Cameron visits the
Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Garden and signs a book of condolence, 2013
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
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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
THE British empire in India was built on piles of corpses and it did not let the blood, tears and sweat dry, from the battle of Palashi to man-made famines killing 29 million Indians and finally dividing the country before it was forced to leave.
The flip side of the history witnessed resistance to the British rule from the very beginning. Between 1765 and the national uprising of 1857-59, there were roughly 46 local revolts and uprisings against intolerable conditions including heavy taxes, confiscation of property, destruction of local industry, enforcing Christianity and ruling by coercion.
The 1857-59 revolt, though it was crushed, shook the British empire at its foundation. The challenge to the world’s worst brutal British rule continued until India achieved independence in August 1947. Anti-colonial challenges in the form of small local uprisings to nationalist and revolutionary movements.
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