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
DON’T be distracted by the pantomime of Liz Truss’s resignation. A bigger game is in play — the complete implosion of the Conservative Party.
Ever since the days of Margaret Thatcher, the Tory Party has been embroiled in an internal war between competing ideologies. Now the gloves are off.
Neoliberal outriders stalked John Major’s government, squeezing one-nation Tories out of their parliamentary seats and replacing them with free-market zealots. Truss was to have been their finest hour. It barely lasted much longer.
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE


