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Crunch time for Scotland
John Wight and Ken Ferguson weigh in on the two sides of the independence referendum as Scots head to the polls
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
NO: Democracy is about to undergo a rigorous test
The rising temperature in the lead-up to polling day risks turning the atmosphere of hope into something far more ugly, writes John Wight
With September 18 and the referendum on Scottish independence finally upon us, the tension, anticipation and excitement in communities the length and breadth of Scotland is of a kind rarely experienced.
The people of Scotland are living through one of those rare moments in a nation’s history when politics hasn’t just assumed an importance it normally never has in the lives of the majority of its citizens — it is the only thing that matters.
Though I believe that independence would be a step back rather than forward for the majority of people affected by it — specifically working people throughout the British Isles due to the realities of neoliberalism and the race to the bottom that would be the result — the Yes campaign has been impressive.
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