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All you wanted to know about Peterloo — but were never taught at school
PETER FROST gives some useful background to the events on Manchester’s St Peter’s Fields two hundred years ago
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
IN my grammar school history lessons 60 years ago I learnt about kings and queens and how Britain had bought civilisation to various parts of the globe that coincidentally always had valuable commodities that would make British companies rich.
We also learnt about the many wars and battles where Britain gave Johnny Foreigner a bloody nose. Michael Gove would have loved it even more that snorting coke.
What we didn’t ever hear about was Peterloo. Researching this article I was amazed to discover that Peterloo still isn’t even mentioned in the national curriculum.
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