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From stage to picket line
PETER FROST recalls Alec Hurley, famous music hall artist, socialist and trade union organiser, who died 100 years ago
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
Did you get to a pantomime this year, I did. "Oh no you didn't," I hear you shout.
Don't you just love the rough and ready humour of pantomime. It's the nearest thing we have these days to the wonderful old tradition of British music hall.
My visit reminded me of one of the real heroes of the music hall and a real working class champion - Alec Hurley, who died one hundred years ago.
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