It is time to invest in our future not nukes and weapons of war, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
AT the end of March, the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for a global ceasefire, saying the war on the coronavirus was the only war we should be fighting at this time of the global pandemic.
Part of his reasoning was that this would help countries focus
resources towards fighting Covid-19 rather than on extravagant military
spending.
Read the full article
The activities of the secret Venezuela Reconstruction Unit show the British government is entirely subservient to Washington’s priorities in Latin America, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
THE Westminster government’s “special relationship” with the US was again demonstrated last week as that of a lapdog obeying its master while hoping for a few crumbs from the table.
Specifically, on June 9 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
revealed that the secret Venezuela Reconstruction Unit had not only had
contact with Juan Guaido, the self-declared “interim president” of
Venezuela and failed coup leader, and his representative in London but
had also visited Venezuela and met other Venezuelans.
Read the full article
KEN LIVINGSTONE writes on British complicity in Trump’s regime change agenda
RECENT revelations of a “Venezuela Reconstruction Unit” in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office show that once again Britain’s Conservative government is falling into line with US foreign policy and acting as Trump’s poodles on the world stage.
The unit’s stated aims are to “co-ordinate a British approach to
international efforts to respond to the dire economic and humanitarian
situation in Venezuela.”
Read the full article
Six months on from the anti-socialist coup against Evo Morales, we need to keep up our solidarity with the people of Bolivia, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
WE recently marked six months since the military coup that removed
Bolivia’s elected President, Evo Morales, from office. With the
coronavirus crisis reaching the country, Bolivians continue to suffer
violent repression and savage austerity measures under an illegitimate
regime, which is now putting lives in danger through its response to the
pandemic.
Read the full article
Now is the perfect time to highlight and confront the systems of neocolonial exploitation of developing countries by unjust loans — and we can fight the fight here in Britain, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
THE international coronavirus pandemic has shown more than ever how both in society here in Britain and in terms of different countries and continents all over the globe, we are more intertwined that ever.
In this situation, there are two possible responses.
Read the full article
With Trump seeking to withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Agreement, we need to keep up the pressure for real action on global warming, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
JUST weeks before Boris Johnson failed to take the strong lead and measures necessary in responding to the coronavirus crisis, he went missing as floods devastated communities across Britain.
The fact that many on the hard right deny the need for real action to
tackle climate change does not alter the fact that the increasingly
regular and severe floods here — alongside extreme events across the
globe such as the Amazon and Australian fires — are clear examples of a
deepening climate emergency that needs to be addressed urgently in the
period ahead.
Read the full article
Instead of offering help, Trump has threatened to increase sanctions on the country unless Maduro resigns, reports KEN LIVINGSTONE
AS STATES around the world struggle to tackle to coronavirus pandemic, Venezuela’s efforts to protect its population are being severely jeopardised by Trump’s aggressive tactics which have been ramped up over the past few weeks.
Trump’s strengthening of illegal US sanctions against Venezuela since
2017 — creating an economic blockade of the type employed against Cuba
since the 1960s — have undoubtedly weakened its health infrastructure by
cutting deeply into its oil revenues and its capacity to import key
medical supplies and equipment.
Read the full article
Despite ‘the Donald’ and the CIA being on quite a roll in Latin and Central America, they have failed to squash Sandinista leader President Daniel Ortega, whose left-wing party are overcoming US sanctions to achieve significant poll leads, reports KEN LIVINGSTONE
THE US is renewing its attack on the elected government of Nicaragua by imposing yet more sanctions, coupled with new draft congressional legislation aiming to secure “regime change.”
This drive of sanctions against Nicaragua dates back to December 2018
when Trump signed into law the “Nica Act” (Nicaraguan Investment
Conditionality Act), over two years after the draft legislation was
first approved by the US House of Representatives in September 2016.
Read the full article
The government should wash its hands of Trident and put resources into our health and security, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
WITH the ongoing coronavirus crisis, these are frightening times for millions of people here in Britain and around the world.
It is important to note that pandemics have been designated as tier-one threats to our security for many years.
Successive national-security risk assessments have rightly identified
such human-health crises as worthy of the highest level of concern and
planning, so why has Britain seemingly found itself unprepared for this
crisis?
Read the full article
The right-wing coup government is repressing and criminalising the country’s progressive and popular movements — but their resistance endures, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
CAMPAIGNING for the “elections” to be held in Bolivia on May 3 is already under way, amid growing evidence that the current coup government is set on “winning” them through manipulation and repression.
Last October’s elections, which Evo Morales and his Movement for
Socialism party (MAS) won convincingly, were annulled following the
right-wing coup supported by the military and the Catholic Church that
deposed Morales and installed Jeanine Anez as self-proclaimed president
of Bolivia.
Read the full article
