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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Warm fluffy pledges won’t save the planet
Without detailed industrial plans, a radical shift in global economic thinking and a real Green New Deal, the climate emergency will only escalate, warns REBECCA LONG BAILEY
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
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states clearly that we need a code red response to a code red emergency.
Days into the most important Cop of our lifetime we have seen warm fluffy pledges to shift away from coal, to end public financing for “unabated” fossil fuel projects abroad and we have countries proudly outlining their own targets to decarbonise industrial sectors.
Any action is of course positive but what we have seen so far is sparse. Sadly more toothless targets are not the code red response the world truly needs.
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