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
What is nationalism? Is it a force for progress or reaction?
Nationalism needs to be analysed in terms of its specific content and context in order to understand its nature, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
TO THE BARRICADES! Picture of the fights between revolutionaries and the royal military in the Breite Strasse Street, Berlin, during the March 1848 revolution, unknown artist
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
IS NATIONALISM a force for progress or reaction?
Our previous answer attempted to unpack the complex nature of “nations” and “nationality.” Nationalism similarly requires some dissection.
All nationalism is based on claims about territory — often someone else’s. It is also usually based on assertions or assumptions (sometimes implicit) about culture and often its deliberate fabrication.
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