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Peru: masses deepen resistance to usurpers

PERU HAS been plunged into a deep crisis after leftist president Pedro Castillo was deposed in a parliamentary coup on 7 December. Read more...

Brazil: The failed coup - a warning to the working class

Thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace in the federal capital Brasilia on 8 January. Read more...

Biden bans railroad strike

As railworkers in Britain face Tory threats to make their strikes ineffective by ‘minimum service’ laws, 115,000 US freight railworkers have just had their strike vote for decent working conditions ‘s Read more...

US: Midterms show need for an independent Workers' Party

The November 8 US midterm elections proved a shock to the commentators who predicted disaster for Biden and the Democrats. Read more...

No UN-US or French military intervention in Haiti

The United Nations Security Council is debating a call by its Secretary-General, António Guterres, for "armed action" to free up Haiti’s main port and create a humanitarian corridor to solve what he c Read more...

Between the rounds of Brazil’s presidential election

Against the run of the country’s opinion polls, which showed Lula da Silva might win outright in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on October 2, the result was 47.9 percent for Lula an Read more...

Elections in Brazil - the struggle enters a new stage

The Brazilian economy has been in crisis for almost a decade. This formerly "emerging market" is plagued by stagnation, inflation, and unemployment. Read more...

Biden's visit to two pariah states

Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. Read more...

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