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Britain's hungry kids need feeding - will the Autumn Statement help?
KATE OSBORNE MP asked Dominic Raab if the government would commit to providing free school meals to kids whose families receive universal credit. His answer wasn't reassuring
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
AHEAD of the Autumn Statement I asked Dominic Raab if he would commit to giving the 800,000 children in poverty in households in receipt of universal credit a free school meal.
It is a scandal that children who are classed as being in fuel poverty do not even get a free school meal.
I understand the importance a free school meal can have on families. I received free school meals as a child and relied on family tax credit as a parent before I became an MP.
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