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Winnie Mandela – a life of struggle and controversy
A pedestrian passes a wall mural dedicated to anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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
WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA, one of the most potent symbols of the heroic struggle against the obscenity of apartheid in South Africa, has died at the age of 81.
Winnie Mandela
The Tories and their tame media will want to concentrate of some of the failings she was accused of, but these were the people who half a century ago called for Mandela to be hanged and their racist demand was probably directed as much towards Winnie as to Nelson.
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