Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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A tale of two extraditions
Assange is in jail as a whistleblower and faces extradition – but the wife of a US spy who ran over a teenager was allowed to leave the country, facing no charge, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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
JULIAN ASSANGE is in a British jail, imprisoned because he faces US extradition. He is being extradited because he helped expose US war crimes.
Some people who used Assange’s leaks have turned their back on him because he also faced rape charges, but those charges were never heard in court, and that is not why he is in prison now.
Assange is in prison because he ran Wikileaks, which published the leaked “Collateral Murder” video, which showed US troops gunning down journalists in Iraq from a helicopter gunship.
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