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Cool down the rhetoric and start the search for diplomatic solutions
The Morning Star reprints the speech given by KEVIN COURTNEY at the Stop the War meeting in London on Wednesday
WAR IS NO SOLUTION: Demonstration at Trafalgar Square last Saturday February 26 2022
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
I’VE been a long-time member of the Stop the War Coalition. On Wednesday night I spoke at a meeting.
This is something like what I said:
First of all, important for me to make one thing very clear.
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