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Mike Pentelow: communist, author, journalist and community activist, whose life enriched us all
Mike Pentelow
[Peter Arkell]
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
“WHEN the night has come and the land is dark.”
The opening lines of Ben E King’s song Stand By Me, perfectly described my feelings when I got the news on April 1 that Mike Pentelow had died.
For my prodigiously talented, much-loved friend of 50 years, communist, author, journalist and community activist was also joint world president of the International Stand By Me Club (ISBMC).
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