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Belarus: nationalised industries or EU privatisation?
KRISTIAN CARTER explains what is at stake in the embattled nation, the only post-Soviet country to resist neoliberalism and maintain state control of its resources
A government supporter wears a portrait of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at a pro-government rally in Minsk, August 25, 2020
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
OUR television screens are currently awash with images of protesters on the streets of Belarusian towns and cities. Images of masses of civilians holding red and white flags are flooding the European media.
Rolling news footage of presidential candidates meeting high ranking EU officials is part of a sustained campaign to give the defeated candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya the appearance of a president in exile.
The European Union has already recognised her as the legitimate winner of the Belarus August election despite no apparent investigation or examination of the legitimacy of the actual election itself.
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