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Hardy winter crops that come in handy on a budget
MAT COWARD reviews some of the latest veg to try growing in the cold months
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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
WITH capitalism no longer capable even of putting eggs on supermarket shelves, gardening seed catalogues begin to move from the hobby category to that of survival equipment.
Real Seeds ( www.realseeds.co.uk) have got the idea. Their Low-Waged/Unwaged Seed Pack contains 10 packets of seed, costing £10 including postage. It’s designed for people who are struggling, or involved in growing food for those who are, and is subsidised by sales of the same pack at its full price of £21.
A vegetable which sustained many of our cottage-gardening ancestors, Cottager’s Kale, is unsurprisingly back in fashion, with Dobies ( www.dobies.co.uk; tel 0844 7364209), among others, adding it to their lists this year.
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