Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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Is the Caribbean even ready for Brics?
These rich islands still have close political and economic relationships with the nations that enslaved them — is it any wonder truly independent nations in Africa are considered for Brics first, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Brics is about creating new rules of the game. By definition, this means not allowing the old bullying tactics that the colonialists adopt to seep into the work of Brics.
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
THE expansion of the Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to include Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia has rightly received a lot of column inches.
It has given the millions of people in the global South who are fed up with the bullying behaviour of the US and the other former colonial powers some reasons to be optimistic and, indeed, to be just a little bit cheerful.
Those of us in the belly of the beast who work as dissidents against the behaviours of the neocolonialists also have much to organise in support of the resistance and fightback from the global South.
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