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A community rallies round against child hunger
As Johnson and the Tories heap suffering on all the poor children of England, IAN DUCKETT introduces readers to a model of trade union solidarity in his local area
Children eating lunch in segregated positions at Kempsey Primary School in Worcester
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
FROM the red wall of the north to the scudding skies of East Anglia and points south and west, poorer pupils will not receive free meals during school holidays this half-term.
In July, Marcus Rashford forced the Prime Minister into a humiliating U-turn, which delivered the free meals throughout the long summer holidays. Not so in harsher October.
The Prime Minister’s spokesperson insisted it would not be repeated, despite the spread of tougher restrictions across England as coronavirus infections surge, insisting: “We are in a different position now.”
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