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One of the most hopeful days in modern history: Niall McDevitt and Days of Hope
by Niall McDevitt
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
My mobile rang. I didn’t recognise the number, but answered. A friendly professional voice asked if I was Niall McDevitt. Telesales? Normally I would have hung up immediately, but there was something in the tone that made me keep listening.
“It is,” I ventured.
The man at the other end then really surprised me. Instead of breaking into a mercantile spiel all about some wonderful product or policy, utterly irrelevant to me, he simply asked: “I liked your book Porterloo. I was wondering if I could commission you to write a poem?”
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