While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Celebrating Chavez and the power to transform lives
25 years on from his becoming Venezuela’s president, Chavez should be remembered as a spark for 21st-century socialism, writes MATT WILLGRESS
President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez addresses crowds of supporters at the Camden Centre, London, May 2006
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
THIS month marks 25 years since Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias became president of Venezuela.
Chavez died just over 15 years later on March 5 2013, but his legacy lives on in the burgeoning anti-imperialist — and, in many places, anti-capitalist — movements that receive increasing support not only in Latin America, but across the global South.
In this sense, he stands with other giants of national liberation and socialist movements of past decades such as Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba and, of course, Che Guevara.
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