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Brexit: from the garden of England to the edge of Europe
Instead of being a rebellion of the downtrodden and dispossessed, it was in many ways an optimistic vote by a broad range of English-identifying social classes who believed autonomy from the EU would rejuvenate the economy — but that was never to be, argues PHIL HUBBARD
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
SIX YEARS ago this week, the outcome of the Brexit vote confounded the political class, changing many long-held assumptions about the political map of Britain.
Struggling to make sense of the geography of Brexit, pundits quickly seized upon the idea that the Brexit vote had been delivered by those in “left behind” communities, with a common claim being that the legacies of deindustrialisation and manufacturing decline, and subsequent decades of disinvestment, had fomented a fundamental political discontent.
Those who voted to leave Europe were depicted as voting against Westminster as much as they were voting against Brussels.
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