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Tories hide forest sell-offs behind flamingos
When I first started writing this column for the Morning Star the selling off of our National Forest was a big issue. It seems it still is, writes PETER FROST
ON BORROWED TIME? Snow-covered peaks at Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park
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 Tories have been trying to sell our national forests for years. Public opinion and some high-ranking public inquiries have stopped them getting away with it in the past, but they secretly keep up the campaign to give their rich mates a chance to own some of the gems of our countryside.
Greatest among those gems are the National Parks and various Tory environment ministers from Caroline Spelman in 2010, through Owen Paterson, Liz Truss and now Michael Gove have all had a try at letting greedy developers have a nibble at these important places.
One of the worst examples was the huge Bluestone leisure development, part of which was finally built in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
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