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By tram from Tottenham
For this week’s Ramblings, PETER FROST finds a real bundle of delights in north London
Front page of The Illustrated London News, with Cyrus Cuneo’s artist’s interpretation of the tram chase
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
OFTEN, when I am deciding what to choose as the subject of my Ramblings, I have a difficult choice to make.
Should I write something about wildlife and the environment? About transport? Should it be somewhere interesting to visit? Or perhaps some interesting, if little known, incident of labour movement history?
This week I’m going to attempt all of them in one go. You’ll need to hold on tight because we start with one of the most dangerous tram rides of all time.
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