by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
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US and UK boycott Nagasaki commemoration over Israel snub
The hypocrisy of the those who dropped the bombs defending another genocide was not lost on protesters, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
INDICTMENT AND WARNING:(l to R) Nagasaki National Peace Memorial for the Atomic Bomb Victims outer space and the Memorial Hall (open to the sky) designed by architect Akira Kuryu in 2003
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DR STEPHEN WILKINSON assesses the life and legacy of a revolutionary giant
On the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, Communist Party international secretary KEVAN NELSON salutes the ongoing example of a revolutionary people facing a brutal US siege
ALEX GORDON and LORRAINE DOUGLAS report from Havana, Cuba, where they represented the Communist Party of Britain at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties on August 7-8
The best tribute to Fidel is to stand with the Cuban Revolution today as the Trump regime tries to starve it to death, argues Cuba Solidarity Campaign communications manager NATASHA HICKMAN
JOE DWYER of Sinn Fein reflects on the links between the Irish and Cuban struggles for independence and on Castro’s personal engagement with the cause of Irish freedom
THE United States has never formally apologised for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9 1945 respectively.
Nor, until May 2016, had a sitting US president ever even visited the city of Hiroshima.
It was president Obama who did so, just seven years after his April 2009 speech in Prague where he had promised that “as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon,” the US had a “commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
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