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The Tories have adopted a scorched earth policy. We must oppose them now
DIANE ABBOTT says the public mood of support for escalating strikes is remarkable – we need to unite it into a political opposition to the Tories
MAKING A POINT: Demonstrators outside the Woodhouse Colliery, south of Whitehaven on September 7 2021
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
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
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN mid-October Labour’s opinion poll lead was an unfeasibly high 39 per cent and is now averaging about half of that level.
This shows that there should be no grounds for complacency about the outcome of the next general election. Even so, the Tories still have a mountain to climb.
Almost unprecedentedly, the Tories have not reacted by trying to win over the electorate. On the contrary, they seem to have taken the view that the next election is already lost (which also explains why so many rats are jumping from their parliamentary ship).
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