The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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Resistance, bravery and determination are the bywords of liberty and justice
Activists demand the resignation of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
EUROPE and, indeed, the world is witnessing a resurgence of fascism.
From the elections in Ukraine to Brazil, Israel and the US, far-right racists have increasing control over the military-industrial and financial sectors of their nations to include domestic and foreign policy.
Domestically, in the US, we see Black Lives Matter protesters beaten by police, over 100,000 Covid-19 deaths, mass unemployment with sanctions placed on Iran, China, Venezuela, Russia and Korea, while wars, economic and military, continue against Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Syria and Cuba among others.
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