Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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Iran: Raisi elected with blood on his hands
The recent inauguration of President Ebrahim Raisi raises questions about his past in the ‘Death Committee’ — as well the direction of Iran’s future foreign policy, writes JANE GREEN
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
A DEGREE of tension between the elected President of Iran and the country’s Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been built into the system ever since the establishment of the Islamic Republic 40 years ago.
That tension has focused around the degree of emphasis in Iranian foreign policy upon engagement with the US and to a lesser extent the European Union.
The Western press have tended to simplify this tension as one between “conservative hardliners” and “reformists” within the Iranian political system, seeing hope in the presidencies of Khatami (1997-2005) and Rouhani (2013-2021), while despairing at the two terms of Ahmadinejad (2005-2013).
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