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How the EU starves Africa
Contrived trade agreements favour the wealthy nations of Europe, devastating local African economies and the livelihoods of farmers, writes BRIAN DENNY
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
THE starkest example of the dark heart of the European Union is its brutal neocolonial relationship with the Third World, particularly Africa.
The most obvious and damaging example is, of course, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which takes up half the EU
budget and lavishes subsidies on the EU’s biggest landowners at the expense of millions of the poorest farmers in Africa.
The criminal £30 billion-a-year subsidy regime allows the EU to dump thousands of tons of heavily subsidised food into Africa every year.
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