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Acceptable racism? Not in my book
Why are racist attitudes to Gypsies acceptable from otherwise right-minded people, asks PETER FROST
THE RIGHT TO BE DIFFERENT: Young women and men wash and exercise their horses in the river Eden during the Horse Fair in Appleby, Cumbria — an popular annual gathering of gypsies and travellers
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
I have never understood why among some of my friends and acquaintances who would never utter a racist opinion about the Irish, Eastern Europeans, Afro-Caribbeans, Indians and Pakistanis or any other ethnic grouping are those happy to make public their disapproval of Gypsies and other groups who choose a travelling lifestyle.
They will group them all together as thieves, roadside litter louts and anti-social scroungers.
People who would rightly choke on the words “nigger” or “paki” will happily use racist terms like “pikey,” “gyppo,” “diddicoy” or “tinker” to describe members of the various itinerate groups.
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