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As Minneapolis burns, what can the Thatcher years teach us about combating Trump and Johnson?
With the US president fanning the flames of violence in Minneapolis, DIANE ABBOTT MP looks at the history of scapegoating and finger-pointing at ‘the enemy within’
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
MINNEAPOLIS and other US cities are in flames after the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed and immobilised black man in police custody.
He is alleged to have committed fraud. Campaigners have contrasted his treatment with a number of US serial killers who all made it safely from apprehension to arrest to the court room without injury, who were all white.
Donald Trump has intervened in the process, effectively encouraging a shoot-to-kill on unarmed civilians.
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