US launches ‘all-front’ offensive against China
In the course of 2018 the US launched an offensive against China on multiple fronts.
Europe
Tories are undermining agreements on Ireland
There is a systematic effort by the British government and its allies to renege on its international agreements and treaties in relation to Ireland.
Real breakthrough for Swedish far right is the concessions of other parties
The far right Sweden Democrats did not make the big electoral breakthrough in the latest general election that its supporters had threatened.
Theresa May reneges on agreed Irish deal. Corbyn offers a way forward
Theresa May’s speech in Belfast last Friday ripped up the agreed position on the Northern Ireland ‘backstop’ deal her government had reached with the EU-27 in December last year.
Martin McGuinness: The Man I Knew by Jude Collins – Book Review
How to estimate the significance of an historic figure of recent passing? Martin McGuinness’s portrait now adorns murals in Ireland, alongside Wolf Tone, Constance Markievicz, James Connolly and similar giants of Ireland’s struggle for freedom. Such positioning is not outlandish. It’s what Martin earnt.
The upsurge of racism in the West
The current wave of attacks on migrants by governments in the US and Europe underlines the new centrality of racism in current Western politics and the developing links between Donald Trump and Europe’s far-right.