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Fire safety is no political game
Corbyn’s call for sprinklers is about more than Westminster, it’s about people not having to live in firetraps in the 21st century, writes NATHAN AKEHURST
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
AS GRENFELL Tower burned there was one question being asked, desperately, both in my home borough of Kensington and beyond.
Why?
It is not a question that has been answered satisfactorily five months later. We continue to live in hope that the public inquiry may go some way toward the forensic side of the explanation. But we know the broader answer; we always knew it. Because not enough people in positions of power cared.
That’s why residents were silenced, why stairwells went un-numbered, costs were cut on external cladding, fire stations sold off for luxury flats and official reports sat on.
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Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
