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TENS of thousands of people joined a demonstration on Wednesday organised by lorry drivers and other trade unionists in the first major protest so far this year against conservative Argentinian President Mauricio Macri’s austerity agenda.
Working people continue to lose purchasing power to a high inflation rate and are frustrated by layoffs, rising fuel and transport costs and reduced utilities subsidies.
President Macri, who took office in 2015, claims his austerity programme is necessary to attract foreign investment and boost the economy.
Football may not solve the working class’s problems, but it does matter — and politicians know it, writes BERT SHOUWENBURG
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA