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Dutch conservatives cede ground to far right, left challenged to fight back
As right-wing parties are set for a long-drawn-out negotiation to form a coalition, widespread racism in the Netherlands is set to be bolstered by the election results, writes HARRY O
Geert Wilders of the far-right PVV party
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
SNAP elections in the Netherlands on November 22 saw big gains for the anti-Muslim far-right Freedom Party (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, now the biggest party in the parliament.
Out of a 150-member parliament, PVV won 37 seats (up from 17), with almost one in four people voting in the party. In the context of the Netherlands’ very fragmented political landscape, with 17 parties in the parliament, this amounts to an enormous win.
Coming second was the coalition of the Labour Party and the Green Left Party (PvdA/GL) with 25 seats, led by ex-European commissioner Frans Timmermans. Separately, the two parties had nine and eight seats before the elections, so together they gained eight seats.
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