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Britain’s ‘subversives’ were proved right by history
SOLOMON HUGHES fears MI5 and Special Branch cant and wont put an end to their ineffectual, irratating and life-destroying tactics
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
ARE Britain’s security services going to play daft games when Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister? The signs suggest they will.
Former MI5 boss Stella Rimington gave the Daily Mail, the Times and the Telegraph a thrill last week, telling the Cheltenham Literary Festival that members of “various subversive organisations” she monitored in the 1980s are “familiar names” who “are now grown up and advising our would-be prime minister Mr Corbyn as to how to prepare himself for power.”
The right-wing press had a little reds-under-the-beds frisson. But to do so it had to pretend to forget the “subversive organisations” Rimington and the security forces “monitored” back then weren’t “subversive” at all. They were democratic campaigns which rightly challenged the Establishment.
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