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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We need to rise to the task of defeating the global rise of racism
There must be no concessions to any form of racism or anti-migrant scapegoating, says SABBY DHALU
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
AS many of us watched in horror last Monday as England football players faced racist chants and nazi salutes, it provided a chilling microcosm of what has taken place across Europe and the US — the growth of an emboldened and ever more vicious far right alongside an epidemic of hate crime.
Just as in Britain, where the “Democratic” Football Lads Alliance marches were followed by attacks on places of worship, the evidence in Vasil Levski Stadium of an organised group of fascists intent on spreading hatred was all too clear.
The horrific attacks in Christchurch, Pittsburgh and, most recently, at a synagogue and a Turkish shop in Germany on Yom Kippur, are just a few examples of anti-semitic and Islamophobic far-right terrorist attacks that have now become regular.
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