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Luke James speaks to CAROLINE LUCAS at Green Party conference, where her book Dishonourable Friends?, memoirs of her time in Parliament and a manifesto for change at Westminster, was launched
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
You’re a one-woman party in Westminster with a huge caseload of constituency work and a crucial election coming up, so why write a book as well?
The book is about the anger that I felt seeing up close just how badly Westminster works, frankly.
I think if most people recognise the lack of scrutiny that most legislation gets, they would be shocked.
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