MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
WHILE Catalonia has the right to secede and no-one has the right to stop it, Catalan nationalism in its present form has elements that are deeply unattractive.
There is a ruling oligarchy in power in Catalonia that circulates most of the wealth and the jobs among itself. Prejudice and cronyism are rife.
A large percentage of Catalans are actually from other parts of Spain. Miguel Cardenas, for example, was born in Andalucia.
At the age of 14 in the sixties he was on the streets demonstrating against Franco and against Franco’s treatment of Catalonia and getting beaten up and jailed for doing so.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
ISAAC SANEY points to the global stakes involved in defending the Cuban revolution against imperialism and calls for resistance
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride


