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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From the river to the sea: how global politics has abandoned the Middle East
Israel’s recently revealed plans for displacing millions of Palestinians into Egypt won’t bring peace, and neither will more war of any kind — what can progressives in the West call for instead, asks ALAN SIMPSON
People at a rally in Trafalgar Square, London, during Stop the War coalition's call for a Palestine ceasefire, November 4, 2023
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
I CAN barely decide whether to write or weep. The relentless bombing of Gaza is a tragedy of epic proportions.
Nothing excuses the atrocities committed by Hamas. But as things stand, a Palestinian child is being killed every 10 minutes from the bombings in Gaza.
Some 3,500 children in Gaza have died already; more in three weeks than the annual child deaths in conflict zones since 2019. I find it impossible to list this as “legitimate self-defence.”
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