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Belarus: nationalised industries or EU privatisation?
KRISTIAN CARTER explains what is at stake in the embattled nation, the only post-Soviet country to resist neoliberalism and maintain state control of its resources
A government supporter wears a portrait of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at a pro-government rally in Minsk, August 25, 2020
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
OUR television screens are currently awash with images of protesters on the streets of Belarusian towns and cities. Images of masses of civilians holding red and white flags are flooding the European media.
Rolling news footage of presidential candidates meeting high ranking EU officials is part of a sustained campaign to give the defeated candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya the appearance of a president in exile.
The European Union has already recognised her as the legitimate winner of the Belarus August election despite no apparent investigation or examination of the legitimacy of the actual election itself.
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