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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It’s the media, stupid
What do we do with the fact that newspapers’ editorial negativity towards Labour in 2019 more than doubled from 2017, asks IAN SINCLAIR
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
AS soon as the general election was called for the Tories, liberal commentators moved quickly to shut down debate about the role the media had played in the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
“Blame the media blame the media blame the media,” sarcastically tweeted Janine Gibson, former US editor at the Guardian and now assistant editor at the Financial Times.
Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff was equally dismissive, tweeting: “I see the official line is to blame Brexit. Or the media. Anything but the leader & the people who have kept him there.”
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