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The EU was no friend to RMT members
by Gordon Martin
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
IT’S often said that to live in interesting times is a curse. Politically and industrially the last two or three years in Scotland have been very interesting and only history will judge whether working-class communities and organised workplaces were blessed or indeed cursed.
It would be entirely understandable if “voting fatigue” was to be found across the electorate in Scotland with the independence referendum, Westminster election, Holyrood election and now the EU referendum, all happening within the space of a couple of years.
What is clear is the boss-class-inspired political cuts, austerity and industrial attacks on workers have not petered out and continue to be relentless.
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