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
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Most British news reports on Nelson Mandela's death note the number of streets and buildings named after the ANC leader in Britain, showing how much British people cared about the great man.
They don't say how hard the Tories and their friends opposed the Mandela name.
Now David Cameron says Mandela was a hero. But when it mattered, when he was imprisoned by apartheid's jailers, the Tories were enraged by Labour councils supporting Mandela.
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