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Communists were central to the Battle of Cable Street
You can’t write the CP out of history, says MARY DAVIS
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
Remarkably, the roles of the Communist Party and the Jewish community has been wilfully unremarked upon by sections of the left in their clamour to claim Cable Street as an anti-racist victory spearheaded by undefined socialists. History teaches us otherwise.
Alone in the labour movement, the Communist Party was at the forefront of the fight against fascism in Britain.
Anti-semitism was the essential feature of 20th-century fascism: a fact readily understood by communists and Jews. Mainly centred in London’s East End, the Party’s membership among Jews was out of all proportion to the size of the Britain’s Jewish community, accounting for around a tenth of total CP membership.
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