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 truth about Venezuela’s elections
The US and its allies are gearing up to delegitimise the results of the forthcoming election by branding it ‘undemocratic’ – but the country’s automated system is the most audited in the world, writes TIM YOUNG of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
A man casts his ballot in front of a mural of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a voting rehearsal at a public school in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela
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
VENEZUELA is holding its fifth election for the National Assembly since Hugo Chavez first won the presidency in December 1998.
The five-yearly contest for seats in the assembly will take place on December 6.
While the Trump administration and the self-declared “interim president” Juan Guaido have already declared that they will not recognise the elections as “free and fair,” Venezuela is going to even further lengths than previously to demonstrate that the electoral process is of unquestionable integrity.
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