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
Lammy postures, but Haringey remembers the real Corbyn
The current MP for Tottenham might want to ‘distance’ himself from Corbyn’s socialist politics now, but his constituents haven’t forgotten the day the young councillor took the fight to the National Front in 1977, writes KEITH FLETT
Corbyn played a key role in the “Battle of Wood Green” on April 23 1977, one of the landmark battles which grappled with the rise of the fascist National Front, eventually successfully. On that Saturday afternoon the fascists planned to march down a bustling multi-racial shopping street with the aim of stirring up division and hate.
Corbyn was the organiser of the counter-demonstration.
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
JEREMY CORBYN’S Haringey years have led to lasting respect in the area.
I last saw Corbyn in person just before the first lockdown in early March 2020 when he delivered the 20th anniversary Bernie Grant lecture at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham.
His speech that day ranged across issues from anti-racism, the history of slavery and the rise of Black Sections in the Labour Party.
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