Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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The new Mafia capitalism
A new, totally unregulated and unscrupulous form of capitalism has emerged, mired in dirty money from drug-dealing, pornography and corruption, writes JOHN GREEN
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Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
MISHA GLENNY’S new series McMafia was launched on BBC TV on New Year’s Day. It is an appropriate if depressing opener for the new year.
It aims to highlight a new stage in the evolution of global capitalism: Mafia capitalism. We are, though, not talking here of a few family Cosa Nostras controlling the underworld, but well-organised crime syndicates, with links to governments and security services, gnawing their way to the core of capitalism.
The recent revelations from WikiLeaks and the Panama and Paradise Papers exposing massive tax evasion by global companies only show the seemingly less grubby aspect of capitalist venality.
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