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Trump bites rat
The US president is taking aim at the workers’ redoubtable rodent ally – but who will burst first, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Scabby the Rat
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
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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
DONALD TRUMP’S anti-union hit man is out to puncture one of the workers’ best friends — a giant inflatable rat.
It shows that the right likes to make a noise about “free speech,” but when the workers want to speak out, it reaches for the law to shut them up.
British people might be familiar with the eight-foot inflatable rat from campaigns supported by the trade union Unite.
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