To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
Exiles from tomorrow: Cuba in a time of struggle
In Havana’s streets, where past and future dance, PAWEL WARGAN traces the island’s unwavering socialist commitment, a torch lighting the path for liberation movements from Angola’s battlefields to Palestine's besieged streets
Despite the apocalyptic destruction RAMZY BAROUD points to Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
We are demanding action from our politicians to deliver justice, fairness and decency throughout our communities – join us, says ROZ FOYER
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
It’s not just the Starmer regime: the workers of Britain have always faced legal affronts on their right to assemble and dissent, and the Labour Party especially has meddled with our freedoms from its earliest days, writes KEITH FLETT
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
HAVANA compels you to think about time. It is not the time of the philosophers who debate whether “now” is a speckle or a span.
It is a material time, whose past rolls into the present, and whose future peeks through in the institutions and practices built by the hands of the Cuban people.
Everywhere there are auguries of a utopia not unrealised, but denied. Cuba is anachronistic in both directions, towards both past and future.
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