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Interview: ‘How arrogant they are to think we will forget’
John Haylett talks to Labour stalwart, trade unionist and sport fanatic JO STEVENS as she fights
to win Cardiff Central amid Lib Dem smears and dirty tactics
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
WHEN Cardiff Central Labour Party members met to select their general election candidate two years ago, the Liberal Democrat anti-trade union dirty tricks team had started work.
They put out a story telling Labour supporters that Unite leader Len McCluskey had chosen their candidate.
They followed up that allegation with phone canvassing, after Cardiff Central members had plumped for Jo Stevens as their candidate, with teams in London ringing up people in Cardiff and asking: “Did you know that your Labour candidate is in the pocket of the trade unions?”
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