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These strikes will define the future of Britain
The Tories are trying to wreck the country beyond repair before the next election through authoritarian legislation and driving down pay by gutting public-sector wages. That’s why the strike wave must win, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool as nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take industrial action over pay
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
THE Tories are already fighting the next general election while remaking Britain into some sort of US Republican 1950s version of society.
The Tories have promoted the issue of refugees and migrants crossing the Channel, in a dog-whistle political campaign aiming to shore up their vote.
Other issues of racism have come to the fore, including the use of discriminatory stop and search (overwhelmingly done by the Metropolitan Police) as well as strip-searching mainly black children in our schools.
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