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
Latest editorial
The rejected ‘are the cornerstones who can rebuild the United States’
The Rev William Barber
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
PEOPLE rejected in the past — African-Americans, Latinos, poor whites, women and workers — “are the cornerstones who can rebuild America,” the Reverend William Barber declared in his latest sermon in Washington DC about the New Poor People’s Campaign.
“The rejected must lead a revival of love and justice” in the US, the veteran North Carolinian minister told a near-capacity crowd in the largest church in the capital, Washington National Cathedral.
Barber’s hour-long sermon before almost 4,000 people featured references, from both the Torah (the Old Testament) and the Holy Scriptures (the New Testament) about how the downtrodden of history, written off, rejected or ignored by “leaders,” rose up to lead the masses to reclaim nations and moral values.
Similar stories
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
The US president has cancelled all federal union contracts as ‘un-American,’ saying ‘It’s our dream to have everyone work in the private sector,’ writes MARK GRUENBERG
Congress is pushing absurd anti-communist propaganda into schools as young Americans increasingly reject capitalism — and this is an attempt to lay the ground for attacks on socialist nations and US unions too, warns JOHN WOJCIK
The decision is part of a process that seeks the re-establishment of US military bases on Ecuadorian territory. Several voices have severely criticised the decision as a violation of Ecuador’s sovereignty, reports PABLO MERIGUET