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
IT HAS often felt since the EU referendum that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour can please nobody when it comes to Brexit.
This is despite the fact that, as the commentator Maya Goodfellow put it in December 2017, “Labour didn’t cause Brexit, is not in charge of it and yet the party has the shrewdest position.”
In fact, since 2016, the central point of the Labour leader’s stance has been clear.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN


