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
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Simplistic politics and online ‘cancel culture’ drive working-class people away from the left
Just because the right says it is anti-woke, that doesn’t mean the left must be pro-woke. To defeat bigotry, we need vigorous debate, collectivism and patient engagement, not witch-hunts, says KRISTINA HARRISON
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
ALMOST three weeks ago the actor Laurence Fox from the TV series Lewis appeared on Question Time.
Both in that programme and subsequently, he’s made angry pronouncements on the subject of racism and woke politics.
He’s done it with the kind of boundless, but groundless self-confidence of the average racist bore down the pub, his ignorance only being matched by the smug and racist assumptions that underpin it.
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