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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A rising tide of united protest and struggle
Today’s mass demonstration can lay the foundations for a class-based people’s front to shift the balance of power in Britain, writes ROBERT GRIFFITHS
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
MANY thousands of demonstrators will march through central London today, despite the anaemic title given to the protest by the Trades Union Congress (“We Demand Better”).
It will — as most big demonstrations do — inspire and inform those who attend. The cynics who insist that marching changes nothing should be ignored. Marches mobilise, bring people together, enthuse, re-energise and send out wider messages.
Sometimes they even win publicity in the mainstream media, although only the Morning Star can be relied upon to give such events the coverage they deserve.
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