Mass protests in pre-election period in Cote d'Ivoire

Côte d’Ivoire: Presidential elections of October 25

On top of numerous broken campaign promises, the Ouattara government has also been responsible for a record level of public fund embezzlement. From inflated infrastructure project costs to funds meant for basic social services — water, electricity, education, and healthcare — public money has been diverted often with impunity and in full view of the public. Ouattara fears losing power because he doesn’t want to be held accountable.

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Trotsky at work in his office in the Kremlin 1919

85th anniversary of Trotsky’s Assassination

Stalin and the bureaucracy feared Trotsky as a living, breathing indictment of their monstrous dictatorship and his survival as a vindication of every life lost and body incarcerated in the gulag. His life in exile was dedicated to the task of organising those comrades who rejected the betrayals of Stalinism into the nuclei of new revolutionary parties, first as the International Left Opposition (ILO) and from 1938 as a new ‘Fourth International” under the shadow of fascism and the looming prospect of a new world war.

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Protest outside Egyptian embassy in Beirut. The placard reads "You siege Gaza, we siege your embassy"

Interview: Protests against genocide in Gaza need stepping up

In Gaza itself, there’s been the whole charade with the airdrops. I think they dropped about 2000 food parcels. This is about 0.4% of what was needed in the time that they dropped them. The minimum Gaza needs is about 600 trucks per day, and what they dropped was equivalent to 200 trucks, not in a day but over two weeks. So the lives of Palestinians in Gaza have only worsened, there is now stage five hunger. Every day that passes means more people are close, dangerously close to dying. Other people are getting weaker so they cannot help with getting the food.

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Bolsonaro's far-right supporters attempt to occupy Presidental palace

Trump’s 50% tariff on Brazil backfired on Bolsonaro

The organised working class and the entire progressive sector of the population eagerly awaited Bolsonaro’s arrest, which finally happened on Monday 4th of August when Moraes charged him with defying court orders after he appeared at rallies called by his supporters. It is worth remembering that not only was he the mastermind behind the coup attempt, but he is also guilty of many other crimes, from theft and corruption to deliberate negligence in the pandemic and inciting farmers to murder indigenous people and burn forests.

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Trump and Epstein - best of friends

Trump regime being consumed by Epstein scandal

As more and more information emerges about the sordid relationship between these two obscenely rich sexual predators, the bulk of the media coverage tends to overlook the immense trauma suffered by the victims of Epstein and his network of powerful, ruling-class men. The truth has been hidden about so many aspects of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. However, what’s crystal clear is that the survivors have been completely failed by the justice system.

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