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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Hong Kong: cross-party support for imperialism
What should we make of the new declaration from the British political elite that as a 'former colonial power' it must intervene on the Chinese island, asks KENNY COYLE
Protesters wave the Hong Kong colonial flag in a shopping mall during a protest in Hong Kong
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
HONG KONG has become the main theatre of operations, overt and covert, of an increasingly ferocious struggle between China and Western imperialist powers.
Trade wars, Covid-19 conspiracy theories and China’s growing international influence provide a global backdrop to the conflict, but Hong Kong provides a very specific location.
Last week seven former British foreign secretaries, Labour and Tory, issued a joint letter to the current Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
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