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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True Brits: The Muslims uniting with journalists under attack from the far right
LOUISE RAW reports on a visit to the Baitul Futuh Mosque, where she was welcomed by members of the Muslim community along with Mike Stuchbery – the journalist harassed at his home by ‘Tommy Robinson’
UNITY: (Left to right) Imam Uthman Shahzad Butt, Akber Butt, Mike Stuchbery, Louise Raw, Mrs Stuchbery, Mustafa Siddiqui, Yasir Khan, Imam Qamar Ahmed Zafar
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
WHAT is “Britishness” — and who decides?
As a standard-issue leftie, it’s not a question that much interests me as much a rule, not least because of the iffyness of the whole concept.
But I’ve been forced to consider it lately, as the far right makes increasingly wild attempts to claim for itself a national identity based largely on “othering” everyone else.
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LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war