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Political conflict turns into open ethnic war
The Communist Party of South Sudan offers a comprehensive political analysis of the background to the present confrontation
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
In July last year when South Sudanese President Salva Kiir dissolved his entire cabinet and removed his vice-president, the Communist Party of South Sudan described this as a further step in a series of power struggles within the ruling party.
We pointed out that these struggles had nothing to do with solving post-independence problems such as poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, disease and declining living standards.
They are all about who rules the country and for how long.
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