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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How can today’s political crisis be resolved in favour of the working class and the labour movement?
With the ruling class crisis moving into a new political stage, we need to be promoting Labour’s radical alternative policies when escalating the protests against Johnson’s Tory government, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Boris Johnson's hard-right cabal of ministers
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 formation of a government headed by Boris Johnson opens a new stage in the political crisis of Britain’s ruling class.
Why? Because it is a regime apparently committed to a policy that contradicts the interests of big business.
Most of the big financial and economic monopoly corporations do not want Britain to leave the EU. They regard the result of the 2016 referendum as a major defeat, as any reader of the Financial Times will testify.
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In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare