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Putting Jeremy Corbyn into 10 Downing Street is more important than Brexit
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to the crowd after delivering his speech at the Labour Party annual conference at the Brighton Centre last year
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey hit the right note when he told his union conference this week that putting Jeremy Corbyn into 10 Downing Street was more important than Brexit.
Whether Britain is in or out of the EU, too many more years of right-wing Tory rule is going to wreck our economy and society for a generation.
We cannot afford another long stretch of austerity, privatisation, militarism and widening social inequality. It would condemn millions more people to slum landlordism, low wages, insecure work, poverty and discrimination of every kind.
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