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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Remember the Sharpeville Massacre by actually fighting racism
UN anti-racism day is not a date picked at random, but the anniversary of a turning point in the struggle against apartheid. Join us to discuss the national and international priorities for today’s black-led politics, writes MARC WADSWORTH
Painting of the Sharpeville massacre, which took place 21 March 1960, Sharpeville, Transvaal province, South Africa, currently located in the South African Consulate in London
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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
NEW research has shown that at least 80 people — many of them youths — were murdered by South Africa’s racist apartheid police 63 years ago this month in what became known as the Sharpeville Massacre. Officials at the time lied that the figure was only 69 as part of a big state cover-up.
The damning findings by US scholars say that, in addition, 297 people were seriously injured at Sharpeville when officers with submachine guns opened fire on peaceful, unarmed protesters outside a police station. It was a demonstration called by the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania against the hated “pass laws” that forced black people to either carry identity cards or be thrown in jail.
To commemorate the massacre, which shocked the world and helped to eventually crush apartheid and usher in black-majority rule, UN chiefs made March 21 its Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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