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A white poppy for Yemen and all the other forgotten wars
This Remembrance Day we must focus on the victims of the wars our nation is still waging, directly and indirectly, as well as the British soldiers who have died, argues SYMON HILL
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
BRITAIN is at war in Yemen. The war has not been declared. There are no British body bags coming back. British forces are not directly dropping bombs on Yemen as they have done in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya.
But British troops, ministers and arms companies are playing a major role in this war, just as much as in those other wars that we have protested against in the last 20 years.
The Covid-19 pandemic in Yemen has added to an unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe. With at least 20,000 people killed by war and well over 10 million going hungry, Yemeni health services were already overwhelmed long before Covid-19 arrived. And how do you practise social distancing and other Covid-19 safety measures in a war zone?
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While politicians condemned fascist bombing of Spanish civilians in 1937, they ignored identical RAF tactics across the colonies. Today’s aerial warfare continues this pattern of applying different moral standards based on geography and race, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
