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  Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:

In June 1964, amid a massive crisis pregnant with revolutionary possibilities, the Pabloite LSSP entered into Madame Bandaranaike’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party government. This was the first time that a party claiming to be Trotskyist and historically associated with the Fourth International had entered into a bourgeois government.

On a number of occasions, Donald Trump has uttered one of the few truthful statements he probably has ever made: "We kill people, too."

For many who voted for Pheu Thai and Move Forward hoping they represented a progressive alternative, the election outcome is a bitter disappointment. It is necessary to understand why this has occurred and, above all, what is the political road forward.

The following statement was issued by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US), the student and youth organization of the Socialist Equality Party, as schools and universities reopen.

Karine Jean-Pierre strongly implied that Russia’s government is behind the death of the former Putin ally who led a brief mutiny against the president but didn’t say so explicitly

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death is just the latest in Russia’s long, bloody tradition of settling scores

Those who commit atrocious acts are often described as just ‘evil’. But, we shouldn't not say that human behaviour is beyond explanation ­

According to European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde, “in this age of shifts and breaks … we do not yet know whether we are returning to the old world or entering a new one.”

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