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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Lions, donkeys and a Suffolk Anglo-Saxon king
PETER FROST introduces the man responsible for Britain’s greatest-ever archaeological discovery but who got no credit for it
(Left to right) Archaelogist Basil Brown, who led the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo; a replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet, widely believed to have belonged to King Raedwald, and the 1939 excavation of a burial ship from an Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo
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 minor but pushy aristocracy of Britain are a snobby lot who believe they have some God-given right to rule the land.
One way they try to enshrine that right is by sending their male children — and today females too — to schools where they can learn to spout a few phrases of Latin and adopt an enormous, if totally unjustified, self-confidence.
(Who can he mean? Can’t think of anybody in an important position today who exhibits that particular bundle of characteristics, can you?)
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