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This International Workers’ Day Liverpool will be rocking against fascism
LOUISE RAW spoke to Robin Banks and Richard David, founders of the Resistance Street cultural fightback group, about the event and the group’s aims
The May Day event will launch a year of regional anti-fascist and anti-racist live music events, acting as a blueprint for future events in Glasgow, Manchester, Brighton, the Midlands and London.
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
IN THE 1970s Rock against Racism’s gigs and carnivals confronted a home grown fascist menace that was largely on the streets.
Now that the far right is back with a firm grip on mainstream politics, two men who were central to the ’70s and ’80s scene are confronting it again.
Robin Banks and Richard David, founders of Resistance Street, not only have rock and roll anecdotes to die for, but are both bona fide working-class intellectuals, with a wealth of political knowledge.
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