Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
SOCIALIST Venezuela has been under serious sustained pressure from the United States to change direction.
The US has tried every dirty trick, including assassination attempts and armed insurgency.
The most recent incursion from Colombia near the port of La Guaria resulted in the arrest of 13, including two US mercenaries — perhaps a desperate attempt to get their share of President Donald Trump’s $15 million bounty on the head of the legitimate leader of Venezuela, President Nicholas Maduro.
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET



