A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Perils of ‘partnership across the globe’
An unholy alliance of the US, Nato and Asian states is threatening international peace, says JENNY CLEGG
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
ON MAY 6 Nato security-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met at the organisations headquarters to sign a new agreement on co-operation.
Both stated that Nato and Japan were “natural partners” and both drew paralells between the situations in Ukraine and the East and South China Seas.
Following the US lead, Rasmussen welcomed Abe’s offer that Japan’s military should play a greater role regionally and internationally and went on to declare that “the security and stability in the Euro-Atlantic and Asia-Pacific regions cannot be treated separately.” Both pledged to address global security challenges together in times of crisis.
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