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Paul Mason changes his mind – again
The high-profile journalist’s latest New Statesman article is less an attack on the Morning Star and its commitment to respecting the democratic outcome of the EU referendum, and more an attack on the leadership of the Labour Party, says NICK WRIGHT
Paul Mason on an NUJ picket line in 2010 alongside leading communists Anita Halpin and the late Kevin Halpin
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
LAST June a claque of Open Britain protesters disrupted that summer’s Labour Live event. They waved a “Stop Backing Brexit” banner and chanted over the closing sentences of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech.
The Monday June 18 Morning Star leader commented: “Labour should be sharper, however, in its criticism of the ‘Open Britain’ elitists who are dedicated to thwarting the democratically expressed view of the electorate to leave the EU, which Labour insists must be honoured.
“The demand for a people’s vote, as though the 2016 referendum votes were cast by machines or extraterrestrials, amounts simply to a rejection of democracy because they didn’t like the decision.”
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