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Sheila Capstick: a fearless campaigner for equality and justice for women
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
“THERE’S no such thing as ‘only a housewife’.”
Shelia Capstick was speaking to at a small gathering of Yorkshire miners’ wives to launch a local Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) group during the miners’ strike against pit closures of 1984-5.
She’d asked the women in the front room of her home to introduce themselves and say what they did.
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