Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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Brexit and Trump’s likely exit
Like Brexit, Trump’s victory represents the breakdown of the established order. Like Brexit it was a shock to the main centres of capitalist power. For the US it is hard to see how this can end except in the removal of Trump from office. NICK WRIGHT assesses the likely outcomes
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
Donald Trump has a remarkable talent for mobilisation. Millions of people in dozens of cities — in the country to which his family migrated and in the countries from which they migrated — have taken to the streets in protest at his first actions in office.
This is no single issue protest. The millions who march against the ban on Muslims are mobilised as much by his misogyny as his chauvinism.
Theresa May’s rush to be the first foreign government head to meet him, compounded by a hasty invitation to parade down the Mall in a golden coach with our own head of state, smacks of unseemly submission. That Trump reached only for her hand is perhaps all that is left of the famous special relationship.
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