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Motorcyclists pass a poster depicting Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega yesterday
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“ARE” you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” US authorities infamously asked those entering the country during the cold war.
Nowadays the questions may have changed, but the intention is the same — to keep out undesirables.
It seems that I am one of those undesirables — as well as a communist — finding myself banned from transiting through the US on my way to Nicaragua. “Travel unauthorised,” my ESTA application rejection email said. They don’t tell you why.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The corporate media have been quick to point the finger over the murder of a Nicaraguan opposition figure, but where is the actual evidence, ask KELLY NELSON and ROGER D HARRIS