President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has arrested five of the most prominent opposition presidential candidates and a number of other opposition leaders.

Western media have spent years conveying a lie: that Venezuela had been very prosperous and democratic until Hugo Chávez ruined everything.

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One of the most profound changes over the past 40 years has been the ever-increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny number of individuals. This increasing dominance of billionaires—and how it renders us powerless to protect ourselves in the most basic ways—should be front and centre in the current federal election campaign. Instead it’s barely even identified as an issue.

Send a letter to your MLA and party leaders demanding that the New Brunswick government negotiate fair collective agreements in the public sector. Say NO to a wage freeze for our frontline heroes. Say YES to improving working conditions and wages to solve the recruitment and retention crisis.

Aviva Chomsky | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | While we oppose the Cuban government’s crackdown on the protesters, we also believe that the Cuban government’s paranoia that sees the malevolent hand of the United States in every challenge to its policies is not really that far-fetched. The best way to promote space for Cubans to debate, protest, and seek solutions to their country’s crisis is for the United States to acknowledge Cuban sovereignty, cease its covert activities, end the embargo, and allow the pandemic and humanitarian aid that Cubans desperately need to overcome the pandemic and economic emergency afflicting the island.

Founded by Canada’s most powerful business lobbyists, bankers, and oil companies, the Coalition for a Better Future is crafting a plan to attack workers and reorganize the post-pandemic economy in the interests of the rich.