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Two black heroes of the football fields
Walter Tull and Colin Kaepernick: two different football players, a century apart, have political lessons for today, says PETER FROST
Walter Tull (left) and Colin Kaepernick (right)
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
KEEP politics out of sport — that is the all too common cry from those who are happy with the very right-wing political status quo of sport as it is.
It’s the cry of racist President Donald Trump when brave black footballers kneel for the US national anthem in protest against state violence against blacks.
It was the cry from British Cricket bureaucrats in the 1970s when Jeremy Corbyn and thousands more of us were protesting about tours by all-white South African teams upholding the obscenity of apartheid.
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JAMES NALTON discusses how Fifa claims to be apolitical, but as Infantino and Juventus players stood behind Trump discussing war, gender, and global politics, the line between sport and statecraft vanished