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World politics after Brexit and Trump

Event  |  posted 8 February 2017

Speakers:

Phil Hearse on the impact of Trump and Brexit
Susan Pashkoff on the attacks on women by Trump

The vote in Britain for leaving the European Union and the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election are part of the same process and not coincidental events. What we are witnessing is a worldwide shift to the right, represented by Trump, the rise of the so-called ‘populist’ right in Europe, by Modi in India, by the decline and semi-collapse of ‘socialism for the 21st century’ in Latin America and by morbid phenomena like the rise of Isis and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, an openly death squad government. Read more here....>>>