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
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The EU parliamentary vote in favour of historical revisionism is of importance to us all, writes PHIL KATZ
The Motherland Calls, a monument to the Red Army's victory over the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, the turning point of World War II
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
WHEN I wrote my book, Freedom From Tyranny, the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism — which in terms of falsifying history ranks up with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — was still taking shape.
The Prague Declaration had been initiated by former Czech president Vaclav Havel in 2008 but has changed its title a bewildering number of times.
It is the parent of Black Ribbon Day and the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, adopted by the European Union in October 2011.
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