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Let Cuba live!
Cuba’s achievements in spite of the blockade are phenomenal – imagine what it could do if the blockade were lifted, says NATASHA HICKMAN
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
AS the US blockade enters its 60th year, one can only imagine the strides Cuba could have made at home and internationally if it had not been held back by vicious economic warfare and an unrelenting policy of intervention from its northern neighbour.
As of December 1, Cuba had fully vaccinated more than 83 per cent of its population, including almost two million children over two years old.
Over 10.5 million Cubans (93 per cent of the population) have received at least one dose of the country’s two homegrown vaccines, and booster jabs are currently being administered to the most vulnerable groups. Clinical trials of a nasally administered vaccine are also under way.
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