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What is happening in Cuba?
ROB MILLER reports on the protests against shortages on the socialist island that have been seized upon by the US as a pretext for intervention when it the US itself that starves Cuba via its illegal blockade
Backers of the government march in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021
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
ON SUNDAY July 11 a number of street protests took place in Cuba against power cuts and the scarcity of food and medicine.
The protests were widely reported across the international mainstream media, with news reports running all day on TV networks including the BBC.
The central narrative was that these protests were a call for freedom by the oppressed Cuban people.
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