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My Chicago holiday snaps
In 1968 CHRIS KAUFMAN, on a holiday in US, witnessed the state’s brutal assault on peaceful democratic protesters. His mate Chuck Reynolds took these photographs
Night falls on the big assembly outside the Hilton where draft cards were set on fire
[Chuck Reynolds]
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
THIS is the time of year when we all yawn discreetly over our neighbours’ holiday snaps. I came back from the US with some of my own but... this was 50 years ago from the Chicago streets when the police attacked anti-Vietnam war demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention.
I defy you to yawn.
First, a bit of background. My first visit to the US was in 1968. I was 21 and got a drive-away car in New York, found three co-drivers in Greenwich village and took four days driving the old beatnik route to the west coast thinking I was Jack Kerouac.
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