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The story behind the day we hardly dared hope would come
Now Shaker Aamer is safely home with his family after 13 long years in Guantanamo, JOY HURCOMBE looks back on the tireless campaigning that helped secure his release
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
Jeremy Corbyn said of our campaign that we “are ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
Friday October 30 2015 was the day, British resident Shaker Aamer came back to Britain after over 13 years in Guantanamo.
It was a day we feared would never happen.
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