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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
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
It’s always difficult to be tasked with writing a weekly political column when your deadline will inevitably mean the result is not known by time of publication.
Thus it was that on Thursday your scribe had been, along with most other commentators, predicting a hung parliament.
But that was to fail to take into account the fact that Ed Miliband has just presided over the worst massacre since George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, except in this case the good guys lost.
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