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Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. This article traces the recent political history of the country

Podcast 169 - Prime Minister Burnham - something new or more of the same _ by Socialist Correspondent

Trumps' threat to annex Greenland is only part of a wider US strategy - the whole Arctic region is in its sights. While seizing Russia's valuable Arctic territories would require a sustained open war, Greenland, Scandinavia, and even Canada represent easier US targets.

It is one hundred years since the only general strike to have taken place in the history of the British labour movement started on 3rd May 1926, lasting just 9 days. That high point of class struggle provides many essential lessons about the nature of the movement, the role of the capitalist state, and the potential of the working class to organise its own interests.

The Paris Agreement of 2015 committed its signatories to limiting the rise of global warming to within 2 degrees centigrade with the main industrialised polluters curbing their emissions and helping fund the poorer countries. These targets have not been met and the momentum has gone into reverse. Capitalism seems unable to put in the necessary measures to avert crisis. This article examines options left open to avert a catastrophe.

Nicolas Guillén, longstanding president of the Cuban National Writers Union and member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba worked with popular music and song to bring the language of ordinary people into poetry.

Elections were held in Bangladesh in February 2026 which was won by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party with the Islamist Jamaal-e-Islami party coming second and forming the opposition. Prior to this the Bangladesh Awami League, the country's oldest party, had been in power between 2009 and 2024 but was banned from taking part in the election by the unelected interim administration. There have been serious concerns expressed as to the lack of due process by US backed sections of the Bangladesh oligarchy, the United Nations and the International Crimes Tribunal in their treatment of the Awami League and their former leader Sheikh Hasina.

The UK's famously unwritten constitution means the country is effectively governed by the Privy Council and its executive committee in the Cabinet, composed of what John Mclean called 'The Old Gang' in his open letter to Lenin in 1921. Its longevity is testament to the continuities of class rule in this country.

Israeli weapon systems and tactics , touted and priced as "battle tested" on Palestinians, are being applied in their current war on Iran and Lebanon, employing a strategy aimed at destroying the resistance and its social and material basis as was trialled in Gaza.

Keir Starmer and his leadership team do not pretend to be socialists, or even reformists. They are advocates of the status quo, establishment managerialists of a socio-economy in enduring crisis, and a foreign policy in service to British imperial interests. Like previous administrations they want to off-load the crisis onto the working classes, at home and abroad.