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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Solidarity with Latin America in a time of coronavirus
ADRIAN WEIR surveys the prospects for a continent under continual threat of imperialist interference and destabilisation
A man wearing a mask against the spread of the coronavirus coughs as he walks in the Cristo del Consuelo neighbourhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which has been particularly hard hit by the illness
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
OUT of a mainly dreadful filling of the second rank of shadow ministerial posts, I was pleased to see that my local MP, Catherine West, has been appointed a shadow Foreign Office minister responsible for the Americas and Europe.
She now of course has the unenviable task of trying to navigate a path for Labour to deal with the madman across the water.
West has a good record on international issues. She was in lockstep with Jeremy Corbyn on the Chagos Islands and in the past has always met constituents taking part in Palestine Solidarity Campaign-organised parliamentary lobbies on Palestine.
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Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
With Trump coming back to power, interventions aimed at regime change and a far-right resurgence in the region are heavily on the agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS, calling on the international left to prepare to act in solidarity
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