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 people's Queen's Speech
Investment in renewables, a national care service, ending bogus self-employment, legal recognition of key workers, collective bargaining at a national level for public services — we need nothing short of an FDR-style New Deal, writes REHANA AZAM
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
THE Palace of Westminster will be a place full of pomp and ceremony for the Queen’s Speech today. I fully expect Her Majesty to proclaim to the nation that “my government shall level up” or some such epithet.
I’m sure there is going to be lots of “levelling up” language in the speeches that follow too, speeches I will take with a shovel of salt, because “levelling up” when coming from this government is a superficial show that at best will repair only a modicum of their damage done by austerity over the last decade, let alone done by the pandemic.
But if the government is serious about a fair Covid-19 recovery, there’s plenty that could go into a People’s Queen’s speech.
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