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A feminist with a vivid love of life, gone too soon
Magdalen Berns (1983-2019)
[Nicole Jones]
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
MAGDALEN was born in London and lived all her life in the capital until, as a mature student, she went up to study engineering at Edinburgh University.
She changed course to physics in her second year and graduated in 2016.
Not long afterwards, she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
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