Even with the support of the most influential and backward core of the ruling classes and the media, the right wing managed to fight to a draw, when all were predicting a resounding defeat like the one of 2018.
World
Imperialism meets in Cornwall
Crowding into the holiday resort of Carbis Bay, the G7 leaders will not be joined by the likes of China or Russia, who are excluded from the deliberations but as hosts to this jamboree, the UK has invited like-minded leaders from Australia, India, South Africa, and South Korea.
Pakistan’s private vaccine sales highlight rich-poor divide
An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplies and red tape, makes doses available to those who can pay for them. In a country with a struggling economy, most can’t.
Mexico, June 6: Elections amidst bourgeois struggles and tragedies
The elections to be held on June 6 offer the workers and the people of Mexico practically nothing. There is not a single candidate among the almost 90 percent of the current deputies seeking re-election who truly responds to the deepest interests of the popular masses.
Chile: Towards the new constitution. The triumph of the left and the independents
The diversity in the composition of the constituent assembly not only adds legitimacy to the process, but also “leads to better decisions”, because “having different points of view will allow there to be less bias in deliberation.”
Colombia: The popular uprising is bringing down Duque’s neoliberal and militarist regime
This military barbarism confirms that we are witnessing the collapse of the so-called “Rule of Law” and confirms that there is an abysmal separation between the institutions of a precarious representative democracy and the social demands of the majority of Colombians.
Israel: The U.S. watchdog
U.S. Middle East policy rests on a dilemma. The U.S. maintains its “special relationship” with Israel because Israel is the most pro-Western and stable country in the region. Yet the U.S. realizes that it must also have support from some Arab regimes, the mass of whose populations resent the U.S. links to Israel.
THIS MUST END: A Letter from Gaza as Israel’s bombs fall
How long will the world just sit idly by while we here in Gaza suffer like this? The people of Gaza need more than just statements and resolutions, while Israel receives the arms which are killing and terrorizing us.
Greece: The struggle against the Right at a critical juncture
The coming months in Greece will be far from smooth. The labor law, the privatization of social security, the repression in universities, will come up against resistance. This is where the future of Mitsotakis and the course of future developments will be determined.
India’s Covid disaster: The masses are paying for the callousness of the Modi regime
Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, the right-wing BJP government, instead of fighting the virus with emergency health measures, has been manipulating the pandemic as a divisive tool for its communal politics.
Colombia: The state’s deadly assault on social protest
Though it has received little coverage in the mainstream U.S. press, there has been ongoing mass protests, along with murderous state repression, in Colombia over the past weeks.
May 4 in Madrid: A defeated left (a chronicle of urgency)
Iglesias’s last episode of resigning all of his positions left Podemos in a deep internal crisis that portends a ferocious power struggle. It’s a crisis that will also have consequences inside UP.
Revolution and counter-revolution in Myanmar
Counter-revolutionary violence has reached new heights in Myanmar, as the Tatmadaw (the country’s military) attempts to terrorise a nationwide uprising into submission.
Ecuador: How did the Right make a comeback?
Lasso skillfully portrayed Arauz as a candidate who couldn’t tell the truth. The revelation that Arauz worked with Lenin Moreno’s government when he was an official of the Central Bank—a fact Arauz tried to conceal—spearheaded Lasso’s dirty campaign.
Myanmar’s anti-coup movement
“We have learned from past generations that the working class is the key to victory in this struggle. And from them we have learned that you must never give up and never give in.”
