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
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South Africa: Voters back the struggle for democracy
The ANC and Jacob Zuma overcame all problems to win a fifth five-year term for the liberation movement, writes JOHN HAYLETT
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
SOUTH Africans have had their say and their overwhelming verdict has been support for the African National Congress and its President Jacob Zuma.
Many complain about service delivery or corruption that undoubtedly exists.
Others are disturbed by the 2012 police massacre of striking miners at Marikana or by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on large sums of public money spent on Zuma’s home at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal.
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