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Scottish Labour, and how not to handle a gaffe
This time, please, let’s keep factional politics out of anti-racism, says NATHAN AKEHURST
Hugh Gaffney
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
SCOTTISH MP Hugh Gaffney was — rightly — reprimanded last week for remarks about Chinese people at a Labour event.
I would prefer it these things never happened, but such incidents should be judged on the aftermath as much as the event.
Gaffney gave a swift, humble apology. He faced public censure, and will now attend training where he will hopefully emerge with a serious understanding of how words can bite in a culture that still struggles with the real, material impact of racism.
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