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Remembering Frida Kahlo
Sixty-five years ago a wonderful communist artist died. PETER FROST tells the amazing life story of Frida Kahlo
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
ABOUT 10 years ago, trapped in Dublin by those Icelandic volcanoes, I found I had time to visit an exhibition of an artist — Frida Kahlo — I had read about but never actually seen her paintings except in books.
Now at last I could see the actual gem like sparkling works.
Most were small, brightly coloured with frames that made them a bit like atheist religious icons.
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