Coup

Coup

• Johnson colludes with Trump to strangle Venezuela

  

  The decision to deny the return of Venezuela’s $1bn gold deposit is deliberately risking lives in a pandemic for the sake of regime change, argues Sean Ledwith

• A People Betrayed - book review

  

  Paul Preston’s A People Betrayed is a searing and thorough account of how the Spanish state developed with corruption endemic to its functioning, finds Chris Bambery

• The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup - book review

  

  In The Long Honduran Night,Dana Frank gives a personal and detailed account of the resistance of Honduran people and the involvement of the US, finds Orlando Hill

• Adopting the IHRA definition didn't end the attacks, it accelerated them

  

  Apologising for an epidemic of antisemitism in Labour that isn't there and giving in to the right's demands has only accelerated the attacks, argues Lindsey German

• President Mohamed Morsi: murdered by the thug El Sisi

  

  The Tory government should cut off relations with the rogue state that is modern Egypt, argues John Rees

• Iago Watson strikes again

  

  Watson wants to wreck the Corbyn project. The left mustn't let him, argues Martin Hall

• What happened in the Venezuela coup attempt, and why the threat remains

  

  Juán Guiadó's failed military takeover was a charade, but its international supporters have further interests and plans for ousting Maduro's government, reports Orlando Hill

• When Watson and Hodge represent Labour we know we’re in trouble - weekly briefing

  

  Grassroots Momentum needs to re-assert itself to fend off this coup against Jeremy Corbyn, argues Lindsey German

• The attack on Chris Williamson is an attack on Corbyn and the left

  

  The decision to suspend Chris Williamson is a capitulation to the right that only gives more ground for attacks on the left, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Before Venezuela: a long history of US imperialism in Latin America

  

  The push for regime change in Venezuela represents the latest in an abhorrent history of intervention in Latin America, writes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• ‘Progressive’ Trudeau government attacks Venezuela

  

  With neoliberalism's sights set on Venezuela, John Clarke examines the imperialism of a superficially progressive Canada

• Zimbabwe after Mugabe: his successor struggles to maintain grip on power

  

  What we are seeing in the first elections after Mugabe is the deep state clutching to power, but can it hold on? Asks Shabbir Lakha

• Antisemitism: what the left should say – weekly briefing

  

  We should not apologise for things we haven’t done and we do not shut down a witch-hunt by agreeing with it, argues Lindsey German

• Unite, McCluskey and the establishment

  

  As Parliamentary Labour Party poison continues to infect the movement, our side must resist with clarity and commitment, asserts Richard Allday

• The Secret Left-wing Diary of Owen Smith, aged 46 and a half

  

  Counterfire has gained exclusive access to the diary of Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith

• Brazil coup: will the left respond?

  

  Héctor Rios takes a look at the context of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff

• Turkey: Erbakan, Erdogan and after

  

  Alastair Stephens finds lessons for the movement in his analysis of the recent coup attempt in Turkey

• Failed coup, new clampdown

  

  President Erdoğan is using the defeat of the coup in Turkey to repress opposition, as this analysis from the Turkish and Kurdish Centre Day-Mer explains

• Stop this cynical attack: Corbyn, anti-semitism and the right

  

  We repost the Jewish Socialists' Group's response to claims that Jeremy Corbyn is tolerating a growth of antisemitism in the Labour Party

• Brazil: Rousseff, the left and the coup

  

  As the right attempts a coup, the workers and their allies are determined to fight back, reports Orlando Hill