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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Labour: the beatings will continue even if morale improves
Despite a healthy poll lead, there are no signs of a let up in internal machinations against the left and the membership at large — that's because party democracy is the last thing Starmer wants if Labour wins power, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer congratulates deputy leader Angela Rayner after her speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool
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
IN the last two weeks, a newly elected member of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) — the only Jewish one, in fact — was suspended for attending the wrong sort of meeting sometime in the past.
Another NEC member, Nadia Jama, on the completion of her term on that body immediately resigned from the party itself, describing it as “toxic.”
And a delegate to Labour’s conference in Liverpool was apparently suspended for having the temerity to make a dissenting speech concerning the Ukraine war.
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