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Crucial times for the forces of labour
Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS analyses recent elections and the EU referendum campaign
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
AT ITS 53rd congress late in 2014, the Communist Party said that the following two years would probably determine whether the Labour Party could be reclaimed by and for the labour movement.
Under Ed Miliband’s leadership, Labour was inching back towards social democratic policies, but not quickly and boldly enough to meet the needs of the moment.
It was left to trade unions, the People’s Assembly and other campaigning organisations on housing, disability rights and peace to mobilise, challenge and inspire.
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