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The most wonderful plants in the world
Not the words of PETER FROST but of Charles Darwin who wrote an entire book on plants that eat insects
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
EIGHT years and about half-a-million rambling words ago I wrote a column for this paper on why peat bogs are important and fascinating places. Peat traps carbon and as our planet warms up that becomes more and more important.
In the article I told readers why peat bogs and the plants that grow in them are so important to me. I went back more than half a century to my early days helping out at the Morning Star offices in Farringdon Road.
I was learning my trade and my politics and one facet of life there was a wonderful comrade volunteer who awakened in me my first ideas on something, not much talked about in those days, called the environment.
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