Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Maintaining active solidarity with the peoples of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua remains as vital as ever
ON December 17 2014, president Barack Obama broadcast a historic announcement that the United States would reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba.
This hinted at the possibility of greater changes to come in the long and difficult Cuba-US relationship.
Obama went on to visit Cuba in March 2016 and all the signs indicated that the long-running blockade of Cuba by the US might be coming to an end.
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