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The Man Behind the Bill
In the shadows lurks a little-known Tory lackey with big business links who is poised to snatch our right to strike. SOLOMON HUGHES investigates
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
NICK BOLES, the “Minister of State for Skills,” has been given the job of helping the Tories push through their anti-union legislation.
Boles is acting as the Robin to Sajid Javid’s Batman as they take on the trade union menace. Kapow!
Boles doesn’t make much impact on public consciousness, but he was actually quite a player in Cameron’s Notting Hill set. He is one of the Tory in-crowd.
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