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The gender debate is dividing the left. We mustn’t forget that our unity is our strength
The labour movement needs space for a democratic and respectful discussion, says TRISH LAVELLE
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
FROM what I have observed recently, any deviation from the statement “trans-women are women” will at the very least result in the “offender” being publicly branded a transphobe or a “terf.”
At worst it can result in you being reported to your political party, trade union or employer and accused of hate speech or bigotry.
The impact of this modern day McCarthyism has been increasingly to drive this important debate underground and to create a climate of toxicity, fear and suspicion, the like of which I have rarely seen in over 30 years of activism in the trade union and labour movement.
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