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
Corporate forces are prioritising the shoring up of capitalism – even as workers perish from Covid-19
		The drive to preserve a failing economy that works for the few rather than to transform it radically for the many exists on an international level, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
	 
			PERHAPS you read this on hold in a queue behind scores of thousands trying to access universal credit.
Maybe you are discovering that the fiendish complexity of the government’s scheme to subsidise your pay during this crisis belies the glitzy headlines — especially if you are self-employed.
Or maybe you work in construction, forced by your employer to go in this week to build luxury flats at grave risk to your health, your workmates’ and your family’s, and against the advice of your union.
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               From Maoist student provocateur to Brussels bureaucrat, Jose Manuel Barroso now emerges to push European rearmament and the Atlanticist dream of a forever war with Russia to the tune of billions of euros, writes NICK WRIGHT
   
 
               


