The world waits with bated breath as the “leader of the free world” is selected. The Election 2016 campaign has been like no other seen in the US for a century or more. Voters are trying to make up their minds as to “which candidate they hate less”. As John Peterson of Socialist Appeal USA comments, the US elections have destabilised the already chaotic world situation even further.

Around the world, millions of people are waiting nervously to find out whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will become the most powerful person in the free world. Whoever wins, the election result is not the end of the process; for Marxists, the work is just beginning!

This week, the last inhabitants of the so-called Calais “Jungle” were moved on. The camp itself has been reduced to a pile of rubble and ash. But for the thousands of its former inhabitants, a future of further fear, indignity, and suffering lies ahead as callous politicians – and a callous system – play diplomatic games with human lives.