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‘Labour are the only ones who will focus on recovery and make it our priority’
Scottish Labour candidate MERCEDES VILLALBA talks to Niall Christie about the importance of grassroots working-class politics and connecting with people’s everyday lives
STAYING FOCUSED: Mercedes Villalba on the campaign trail
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
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
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
“EVERYONE who is not sunning themselves on a yacht right now, we are your party.”
A clear message to voters from Labour’s Mercedes Villalba, talking to the Star ahead of the upcoming Holyrood election.
For the Star’s readership who may be off sailing somewhere, this interview may not be for you. But for the rest, the Scottish party and its candidate say there is only one option for socialists on the ballot come May 6.
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