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Straw men and real dogs: A response to Yanis Varoufakis
The former Syriza finance minister has weighed into the British EU referendum debate, but VINCE MILLS is far from convinced by his rationale
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
YANIS VAROUFAKIS, for very good reasons, is seen as a voice of resistance against EU authoritarian, neoliberal aggression.
He was sacked from the Syriza-led Greek government because he did not want to accede to the demands of the EU elite that Greece intensify its six-year depression by accepting yet more austerity.
Left critics at the time asked what he proposed as an alternative to a Greek exit from the EU, or at least an exit from the euro.
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