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Toni Morrison – legendary anti-racist author and editor
Toni Morrison pictured in 1998
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 function of freedom is to free someone else.” — Toni Morrison
The world lost an icon this week. Prolific novelist, essayist, editor and professor Toni Morrison passed away on Monday at the age of 88.
Morrison’s family confirmed “with profound sadness” that Morrison had died “following a short illness.”
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