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Ozkan Ozdemir is one of 7,000 who are on hunger strike in protest at the continued isolation of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. He spoke to Steve Sweeney
Hunger striker Ozkan Ozdemir
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
I AM 42 years old. I am a member of the European Confederation of Oppressed Immigrants, which is an umbrella organisation of refugee organisations serving mainly Turkish and Kurdish people living or working in different European countries, including the UK.
For many years, I worked in the voluntary sector of London as an interpreter, development worker, project manager and for the betterment of social, political and economic life of refugees and asylum-seekers.
I have started an indefinite hunger strike in Cologne, Germany, I later moved to Paris due to the importance of France in determining the politics of the EU.
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