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The right-wing extremist behind the prorogation plan
It was not Johnson’s idea, nor even Rees-Mogg’s – SOLOMON HUGHES reveals the literal ‘Reactionary’ responsible for the parliamentary crisis
Boris Johnson during PMQs
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
WE ARE in the middle of a deep political crisis prompted by the “prorogation” of Parliament. But the man who drew up Boris Johnson’s prorogation plan remains in the background.
Which will suit the Tories, because the rogue behind prorogation is actually a Brexit Party supporter. Johnson’s big gamble is based on a scheme from further to the right of the Tory Party.
Prorogation, suspending Parliament, to get through Brexit has been hovering around the right wing since January.
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