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Ray Hill – giant of the anti-fascist movement
‘Insider’ who wreaked havoc in the ranks of the far right and who will be much missed by his comrades
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
FOR a while, back in 1980, staff at the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight puzzled over the identity of the mystery caller who kept phoning with tasty bits of information about the extreme right in Leicester.
He was obviously well placed — on one occasion, he read out to them the complete membership list of the British Democratic Party (BDP), a highly promising Leicester-based offshoot from the NF.
But he wouldn’t say who he was. When he finally agreed to meet, it was something of a shock.
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