Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Events on the Polish border are part of a bigger picture
The latest refugee crisis is but an aspect of the ever-tightening Fortress Europe policy that began to take shape in 1991-2 with the end of the cold war and the dawn of a supposed ‘liberal golden age,’ writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Migrants warm themselves near a fire at the checkpoint ‘Kuznitsa’ at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
ON THE eastern border of Poland a righteous villager lights a green lamp in a window on a freezing night to send a coded signal.
It is to desperate people hiding in the forests to let them know that help is available at that house.
In so doing, the household knows it will come to the attention of the special squads of armed men who are hunting down the refugees. Perhaps of the state, perhaps fascist vigilantes. Hard to tell. Independent journalists are banned. It is a state of emergency.
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RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
As heavy industry flees and public-sector strikes paralyse the nation, the French leader’s increasingly desperate attempts to rule without a majority reveal the deep crisis at the heart of European liberal democracy, writes KEVIN OVENDEN