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Take pride building on women's heroic past
We need to defend what the labour movement has achieved for women, writes Ann Henderson
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
Earlier this month a memorial plaque to commemorate Jane Rae was unveiled in the gardens of Clydebank Town Hall. Rae was a community activist and former councillor in Clydebank.
Having been centrally involved in the strike at the Singer sewing machine factory in 1911, she was sacked.
She joined the Independent Labour Party in 1913 and later became a councillor.
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