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Gardens of resistance: the struggle for Covent Garden
SAM STROUD tells the story of a grassroots campaign against London property developers and gentrification which ultimately gave birth to today’s much-loved community space, Phoenix Garden
A mural that used to exist on Earlham Street of campaigners preparing a derelict site for one of the gardens
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
TUCKED away in the dense triangle of central London between New Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road is an unexpected splash of urban wilderness.
Phoenix Garden, a small community garden abutting the grounds of St Giles in the Fields church, has been here since 1984.
It may be quiet and unassuming, and less than an acre in size, but it is a living record of a battle for the character of the Covent Garden area.
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