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The communist who wrote Dr Who
PETER FROST remembers Malcolm Hulke, the communist television writer who died 40 years ago
Malcolm Hulke
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
MALCOLM HULKE was a successful writer for radio, television and the cinema from the 1950s to the late 1970s.
His work included episodes for Armchair Theatre and The Avengers, and no less than 54 episodes for Doctor Who, broadcast between 1967 and 1974.
He was also a member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and later the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) certainly from 1945 until the mid-1960s and perhaps even up to his death.
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