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People power vs planetary problems
Protest is having an effect — that’s why the powers that be are cracking down, writes CND general secretary KATE HUDSON ahead of this Sunday's international conference
An XR activist is carried away by the police
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
IS IT a taste of things to come? This week the police slapped a Section 14 order on Extinction Rebellion protesters across the whole of London. This is an unprecedented attack on the right to protest and is of grave concern to us all.
The right to protest was hard won and we cannot see it eroded or stripped away by the Johnson government. The police may have served the order but it could not happen without the say-so of this deeply backward and reactionary government.
So this is the time to strengthen, celebrate and defend our movements. The upsurge in activity in recent weeks and months has been a joy to behold. Last month we saw not only the climate strike but the powerful protests at DSEI arms fair, against the trade in death which blights countless lives.
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