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
Latest editorial
Adan Chavez: ‘The US has failed to beat us’
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to the vice-chair of Venezuela’s ruling PSUV, about the potential to diminish the right-wing bloc in the National Assembly at last and the prospects for Latin American socialism in an era of declining US influence
Hugo Chavez's older brother Adan says the PSUV will not make the same mistakes it made 5 years ago that allowed the right wing to gain a foothold in socialist Venezuela
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
Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
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
VENEZUELA’S National Assembly elections this weekend offer the prospect of ending the right-wing majority the opposition won five years ago.
Given what the right have used their parliamentary majority to do — including repeated attempts to overthrow the democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro, organise violent street insurgencies that targeted and killed scores of suspected “Chavistas” (often identified as such solely by their dark skin) and provide a platform for the assembly’s rotating president, Juan Guaido, to unconstitutionally declare himself president of the country last year, winning a pro-revolutionary majority would be a huge step forward.
Adan Chavez Frias, elder brother of the revolutionary Hugo who led Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, is currently Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba and vice-chair of the United Socialist Party (PSUV).
Similar stories
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET