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To understand Caribbean ‘decolonisation’ look up Richard Hart
ROGER McKENZIE recommends the work of the 20th-century Marxist activist, a founding member of Jamaica’s People’s National Party and a historian whose books showed the primacy of slave revolts in ending slavery itself
UPRISING: A plantation set alight during the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831-32
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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
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
MARXIST thought in the Caribbean extends beyond the obvious trailblazers of the Cuban revolution.
The likes of Cuban revolutionaries Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Trinidad’s CLR James, Guyana’s Walter Rodney and Grenada’s Maurice Bishop have all made a huge contribution towards the theory and practice of Marxism in the region.
The problem is that after these names most people, even seasoned activists, will begin to struggle to add many other names, especially women, from the region to this list of great thinkers and activists.
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