Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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The working class needs a historic upsurge of resistance
How do we organise across our unions and communities to stop job losses in the face of allegedly ‘inevitable’ mass unemployment, asks BILL GREENSHIELDS
Every union at every level from the workplace upwards needs to make a full-on assessment of the effects of job loss — and what intervention is needed
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
CAN we challenge the “inevitability” of the “hard times” that Rishi Sunak — ex Winchester public-school Head Boy, millionaire 10 times over, $700 million hedge-funder, speaking from his £7m home — tells us are “now here,” reassuring us that, despite this, “no-one will be left without hope and opportunity?”
Of course, he means none of his class will be left without opportunity.
We know from long bitter experience that crises and recessions such as those building throughout 2019 are inevitable features of the “failed free market” (as Unite’s Steve Turner called it in his challenging Star article over the weekend) and the anti-working-class politics that go with it. And we know from such experience too that no narrow or sectarian campaign can substitute for such a broadly led movement based in our workplaces, towns and villages.
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