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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Latin America at the crossroads
Cuba Solidarity Campaign director ROB MILLER looks ahead to this year’s Latin America Conference at Congress House
Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and US national security adviser John Bolton shake hands ahead of the G20 summit in Argentina
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
AT THE end of October, new White House national security adviser John Bolton made a keynote speech setting out the panorama of US policy thinking towards Cuba and Latin America.
The speech was an extraordinary attack on progressive governments in the region, with a focus on his so-called “troika of tyranny” — Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Bolton blamed these three countries for causing “immense” human suffering and regional instability and fostering “communism” in the region. He called the leaders of those countries “clowns” and said the United States “looks forward to watching” their governments fall.
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