Mother Teresa has been beatified by Pope Francis I, after a series of “miracles” were fished out from her lifelong record running clinics for the poor in India. These years of crisis and revolution have been a lean period for the Catholic Church, which has been forced to churn out saints in order to maintain its appeal.

In a couple of months time, Americans will go to the polls to elect the new president of the United States. But the “choice” facing American will be over which unpopular crook and liar will get to rule them on behalf of Wall Street for the next four years. This is not a choice – it is an undemocratic imposition by a political system set up and controlled by the two-party establishment in defense of capitalism.

By 61 votes to 20, the rotten Brazilian Senate has approved the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and, consequently, her definitive removal from office. Under pressure from its capitalist masters, the new Temer government must now go on the offensive. These attacks will open up a new period of sharpened class struggle in Brazil.