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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The renewed pink tide faces many challenges, but it’s also a beacon of light, says SAM BROWSE
Bolivia's President Luis Arce, center, waves as he walks with his Vice President David Choquehuanca, second left, and with former President Evo Morales, second right, during a march coined "March for the homeland," in La Paz, Bolivia
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
THIRTEEN years ago, I saw for the first time the film The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It documents, in fly-on-the-wall fashion, not only the 2002 US-backed coup d’etat against the Chavez government, but also its defeat by the massed hands of Venezuelans who came onto the streets to oppose it.
A year later, I was on a plane to Caracas, joining a solidarity delegation of trade unionists and activists to witness first hand the Bolivarian revolution being made in Venezuela. There were two central lessons of that experience.
First, solidarity matters. The revolution in public services, poverty reduction, and education alongside demonstrations for the government — unthinkable in Britain as politicians turned to the slash-and-burn logic of austerity — bore little relation to the headlines at home about anti-democratic and dictatorial strongmen.
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With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we see a new phase of that struggle emerge, writes BEN CHACKO
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
FIONA SIM of the Black Liberation Alliance reports on a whirlwind week in Caracas, including President Maduro’s inauguration