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ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports from the French Communist Party Congress which takes place amid savage government attacks on workers’ rights
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
A THOUSAND delegates and visitors filled the Paris Docks exhibition centre in Aubervilliers last weekend for the 37th congress of the French Communist Party (PCF).
They met to chart the party’s course for the next three years as railway staff, air traffic controllers and other sections of workers were preparing to join the growing national strike wave against a new “labour flexibility” law.
French Socialist Party (PS) President Francois Hollande and his Labour Minister Myriam El Khomri want to replace the statutory 35-hour working week with a “normal” one of 46 hours, limit the right to strike, cap compensation payments for unfair dismissal and allow employers to put previously agreed terms and conditions back on the negotiating table.
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