A California union’s decision to host a meeting about US policy towards Cuba has prompted a congressional probe and renewed attacks on international solidarity, writes CAMERON HARRISON
WHEN I was growing up in North Derbyshire, we all knew a good joke. “Why did the village cross the road?” Actually, it was a bad joke — it didn’t even have a punchline.
The village was Arkwright, a former mining community just down the hill from where I lived, in Dennis Skinner’s constituency.
Six months after Arkwright colliery closed in 1988, a leak of methane gas was discovered in a fireplace and villagers were evacuated from their houses.
Poverty, refugee displacement, child labour and militia violence are exacerbating the challenge of health workers to limit this deadly contagious disease. CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA and MARK BANCHEREAU report
CARLOS MARTINEZ responds to liberal hawk Simon Tisdall’s evidence-free China-bashing and asks whose agenda it really serves
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON



