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 mass murder that signalled the end of apartheid
MARC WADSWORTH reports from the meeting to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre 65 years ago
MEMORY SERVES US RIGHT: (L to R) Activists at The Liberation Movement event; Sharpeville massacre memorial, in Brixton 2018
[(L to R) Author supplied - Matt Brown/CC]
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
AMANDLA, the Xhosa and Zulu word meaning power, was repeatedly responded to with “Ngawethu” – “the power is ours” – at The Liberation Movement’s (TLM) UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination event that commemorated South Africa’s Sharpeville massacre of peaceful protesters 65 years ago.
The upraised clenched fist that accompanied the defiant words symbolises solidarity and support which was a key symbol of the black South African liberation movement.
A dozen British-based South Africans joined many other community and trade union activists at the central London event on March 21 that had a decidedly internationalist outlook.
Among the speakers was Finland’s first black woman member of parliament, Bella Asha Maria Belaynesh Forsgren, a leading Green League politician, who could not attend in person but sent a moving video message.
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