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Your introduction to the Durham Miners’ Gala
PETER FROST has some advice for those planning a first-time visit to the Big Meeting in Durham this weekend
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 Tory Party since Margaret Thatcher may have murdered the British coalmining industry but it never managed to kill the spirit and culture of our mining communities.
Nowhere is this better demonstrated than at the Durham Miners’ Gala — the Big Meeting held in Durham each July.
This year marks 150 years since the first Gala and this year’s event is the 135th Gala.
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