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In National Curry Week, PETER FROST explains why he won’t be going out for 'an Indian' but he will be having a curry
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
IT IS National Curry Week. The first was held 22 years ago. Just about the time then Labour foreign secretary Robin Cook made an excellent speech explaining why immigration made such a valuable contribution to Britain and its way of life.
After Cook had dealt with the serious economic and societal advantages of immigration, he went on: “It isn’t just our economy that has been enriched by the arrival of new communities. Our lifestyles and cultural horizons have also been broadened in the process.”
Then came a soundbite that would be much more widely published than his wise views on socialism, post-imperialism or why he opposed the Iraq war or Israel’s illegal settlements.
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