Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
No space for complacency after Patriotic Alternative resisted in Cornwall
Even after two demos against a hotel housing migrants were comfortably outnumbered, we have to look at how dangerous the appeal of the hard right is in our poverty-stricken areas, writes DAWN EVANS
Rumours and allegations of sexual offences connected to migrant housing schemes are exploited to recruit to far-right demonstrations
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
A MONTH or so ago, Establishment figures such as Greg Dyke and Baroness Patience Wheatcroft responded to the Gary Lineker debacle by calling out the BBC for its glaring double standards and hypocrisy and for breaking its guidance on impartiality — something the socialist left has been yelling about, and being ignored over, for decades.
On Radio 4’s Today programme on March 11, Baroness Wheatcroft accused the BBC of allowing the “rabid right-wing” rhetoric of the Tory-supporting press to go unchallenged.
When economically wealthy and socially secure people such as Lineker, Dyke and Wheatcroft are moved to point out fascistic moves made within governments and media institutions, we know we are in a very bad place.
But it is not so easy for ordinary people on low or average incomes to be able to spend time analysing and reflecting on the political machinations of the Establishment. They are at the sharp end of social disintegration — trying to cope with the depletion of local health and care services, the homelessness crisis and having to juggle the heat-or-eat dilemma.
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