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Retraining not reoffending
PHIL BEADLE speaks to former prisoners who found a new start in life thanks to an innovative programme in the prison gym
A member of staff at Maghaberry Prison
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
BRITISH political life in the current moment appears filled with storybook villains and villainesses: a parade of self-interested pantomime dames and asset-strippers.
Thankfully, though, in places people know little about, heroes and heroines also exist, working tirelessly for others.
One such hero is Arthur Furness. Along with accompanying heroines Megan Knowleden and Emma Tustin, Furness, a lecturer at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, set out to find out why rates of reoffending are so high, why those who have been incarcerated often end up back in the same place. They’ve come up with a solution.
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