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Coronavirus, domestic labour and Dominic Cummings
LAURA BRIGGS explores how women’s oppression in the form of sex stereotypes serves a dual purpose to capitalism
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
LAST WEEK, the senior adviser to the Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings, found himself at the centre of a media storm after breaking lockdown rules to visit family hundreds of miles away.
Cummings has repeatedly asserted that this 260-mile trip was essential to ensure his child could be cared for by her grandparents while his wife was unwell.
An official statement from No 10 said: “Owing to his wife being infected with suspected coronavirus and the high likelihood that he would himself become unwell, it was essential for Dominic Cummings to ensure his young child could be properly cared for.”
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