Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD

AGED 32 and already a prolific poet, Pablo Neruda was a consul at the Chilean embassy in Madrid when in July 1936 Francisco Franco helped lead a revolt against Spain’s Popular Front government.
It was a defining moment for Neruda. His poetry would never be the same again. Nor would his politics. He gave vent to his feelings in I’m Explaining a Few Things, one of his greatest poems:
Treacherous
generals:
see my dead house,
look at broken Spain:
from every house burning metal flows
instead of flowers…

JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled

RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile

