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
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An opportunity for the Labour Party to lead the way — to fly the flag for Palestine
Now is the time to speak up for Palestinians, writes HUGH LANNING
Delegates wave Palestinian flags at the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool 2018
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
PALESTINIANS know that it matters little who the next prime minister of Israel is going to be following Israel’s inconclusive elections, as all the major parties share the same agenda — only vying for votes on the basis of how “nasty” they can be to the Palestinians.
There are no proponents of peace, no-one calling for ending the military occupation, no real advocates of a two-state solution.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to annex the Jordan valley and the land on which the settlements are built is not a new or controversial proposition within Israel — it was pandering to the right-wing view that all Palestinian land is really their land, notwithstanding that Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years.
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