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‘I would be more happy in Moria than in this place’
After the notorious refugee camp on the island of Lesbos burnt down in September, a replacement has now been built. But with no shower facilities, clean toilets, water system, power or sufficient food, Moria 2.0 is even worse than its predecessor. BETHANY RIELLY reports
Refugees gather outside the new camp in Kara Tepe, where residents have described inhumane conditions with no running water or sanitation facilities, as they wait to be transferred to mainland Greece
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
AS Yasser watched Moria collapse in an orange haze, he saw a flicker of hope in the flames.
After more than a year in the notorious refugee camp on Lesbos, he thought that now, surely, Europe would have to give them a dignified home.
Four weeks on and the young refugee tells me he no longer puts hope in anyone but himself.
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