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Maintaining active solidarity with the peoples of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua remains as vital as ever
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
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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