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Happy May Day
All over the world red banners are flying as working people celebrate May Day. PETER FROST joins the festivities
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
WORKERS all over the world will come together to demonstrate and celebrate May Day — the international workers’ holiday.
Let us explore the two parallel histories of this important day. One is the workers’ celebration when red banners fly in the spring sunshine all across the globe and another more traditional celebration of the end of winter and the approach of the better weather of summer.
Both of these themes are related of course. It is no coincidence that they both look forward to the celebrations of better times to come.
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