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The only way out for Wales
No-one has suffered at the hands of Tory privatisation, deindustrialisation and austerity more than the Welsh — today they have a chance to strike back, writes DAVID MORGAN
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
THE capitalist economy creates the situation in Wales — and every other country where it is dominant — in which significant numbers people within our society are condemned to live in poverty and deprivation.
For centuries now, capitalism has deliberately maintained a pool of impoverished unemployed people to act as a threat to working people, driving down wages through a false competition for jobs.
It is clear to those right across the political spectrum that the current system of universal credit, personal independence payments, the sanctions regime and discriminatory housing support are inhumane and unworkable.
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