A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Socialism on the cards in Ecuador
LEE BROWN looks at how, despite widespread political persecution in recent years, Ecuador’s left looks set to win the presidency
THE PEOPLE ARE ON THE MOVE: Supporters of Andres Arauz, presidential candidate for the alliance "United for hope" dance during a rally in Quito, Ecuador last Tuesday
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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
A 35-YEAR-OLD left-wing economist, Andres Arauz, looks set to become the next president of Ecuador in elections this Sunday.
This would be the latest comeback for the socialist left in Latin America. But only if the elections are allowed to go ahead.
No region has had such an influence on the Western left in recent years as the “pink tide” of progressive Latin American governments elected since the turn of the century.
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