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The labour movement must not fall into the Tory ‘culture war’ trap
There is cunning in what some Tories are doing but there are also profound weaknesses – the left needs to be wise to this, says KEVIN OVENDEN
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 term “culture war” is an unwelcome US import. The American culture warriors of the right had a lot going for them 30 years ago.
Whether it was gun worship or banning abortion, they could rely on vast networks, secular and religious. A big section of society had never reconciled to the changes driven by the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s.
The parallel British effort in the years of John Major’s governments was feeble by comparison.
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