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The Brexit swing wasn’t about the EU – it was about dignity and betrayal
What working people have become acutely aware of is a political system which increasingly does not work for them, says LAURA BRIGGS
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
THURSDAY’S general election proved to be the second referendum that middle-class progressives have been demanding for the past three years.
And the result could not have been clearer. For all we have been told that “they didn’t know what they were voting for,” it transpires that working Britain did, in fact, know what they were voting for — and they have just voted for it again.
Rather than show regret or humility, Labour’s largely middle-class membership is continuing in the same vein — berating the working class who have swung to the Tories as stupid, ignorant, racist or otherwise being gullible enough to fall for Tory propaganda.
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