The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
GUILLERMO TEILLIER has offered the El Siglo newspaper an initial assessment of the presidential primaries within the left’s coalition Apruebo Dignidad (I approve/Pass Dignity - integrated by Chile Digno/Dignified Chile and Frente Amplio/Broad Front), although he stresses: “we are just beginning the in-depth analysis.”
Teillier highlights the high participation in the process and the positive vote for [Chile’s Communist presidential candidate] Daniel Jadue and Chile Digno, while reiterating the commitment to work now for the presidential candidacy of Gabriel Boric, who has won the primary to become the candidate of the whole left.
There are questions about what happened, but I would like to start with what will happen. After the primaries, what's next for the Communist Party?
CJ ATKINS takes a closer look at Trump’s recent spate of red-baiting speeches and asks why the authoritarian president is running scared
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD


