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Remembering Corbyn’s role in fighting racism in Haringey
KEITH FLETT looks back 40 years to the battle of Wood Green, when ordinary Londoners resisted a march by the National Front
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
On April 23 1977 the National Front decided to march from Ducketts Common by Turnpike Lane Tube in north London down a busy London high road packed with Saturday afternoon shoppers.
There were several thousand fascists but they were outnumbered by opponents, including many people out shopping, appalled that fascists were marching on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday.
It would be bad enough today but this was a mere three decades after the end of the second world war and numbers who had been actively involved in fighting Hitler were no doubt around on that spring day.
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