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29 Oct 2021

Strikes erupt across Portugal as government fails to adopt budget

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Alejandro López & Alex Lantier Prime Minister António Costa’s seven-year minority Socialist Party (PS) government collapsed on Wednesday...

Peasant protests demanding fertiliser erupt across Sri Lanka

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Gamini Karunathilaka & W. A. Sunil Tens of thousands of farmers in Sri Lanka have been involved in daily protests since the beginning of...

France, Britain threaten trade war over Brexit fishing dispute

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Alex Lantier Paris and London are threatening each other with large-scale trade war measures starting next week, amid a mounting post-Brexit...
28 Oct 2021

Draconian PTA, Presidential Pardon to Criminals and Impunity to Security Forces

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Kumarathasan Rasingam President Gotabaya Rajapakshe in his speech in the United Nations General Assembly in his ambitious statement said “Fo...

UK budget: austerity for workers and billions for bankers

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Robert Stevens UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered a class war budget yesterday, ending the limited social concessions passed during the pan...

Floods in Greece expose the fatal consequences of climate change and austerity policies

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Katerina Selin Heavy rains led to devastating floods across Greece in mid-October. Based on the number of emergency calls, the fire brigade ...

Germany’s reopening policy leads to surge in COVID-19 infection rates

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Tamino Dreisam Germany’s COVID-19 incidence rate, which is the number of people per 100,000 inhabitants infected within seven days, has expl...

What’s behind Tesla’s $1 trillion market valuation?

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Gabriel Black On Monday, Tesla, the leading electric car company, owned by Elon Musk, achieved a market valuation of over $1 trillion. Tesla...