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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
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
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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