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Institutional racism and male violence: a deadly combination
Racism and sexism deserve deeper analysis than merely branding them symptoms of capitalism – they are essential to its function, argues LAURA BRIGGS
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
THE past few weeks have reignited the decades-old fight against structural racism and police brutality.
George Floyd, a 46-year-old man from Minneapolis, was murdered by police in broad daylight after a shopkeeper called the police on suspicion of Floyd using a counterfeit $20 bill.
Common to the vast majority of police brutality cases is the male sex of offending officers.
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