Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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The politics of uncertainty
The current atmosphere of chaos at the top is no accident — Boris and his new crew of extreme ‘libertarian’ crusaders are hiding their open venality, corruption and unhinged neoliberal agenda behind a facade of incompetence, writes ALAN SIMPSON
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
THE government’s educational omnishambles is stealing all the headlines at the moment. It pushes political incompetence to new limits. But behind the debacle lies a bigger crime. Boris Johnson is killing parliamentary democracy faster than the pandemic is killing people.
And though Labour is immeasurably more virtuous, the party struggles to lay a glove on him.
Keir Starmer’s forensic integrity initially came as a welcome relief. But Johnson merely shrugs his shoulders and buffoons along relentlessly. The sanitised nature of today’s Parliament allowed him do so. Safe separation distances have depleted parliamentary scrutiny faster than they have emptied the green benches.
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