Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis, writes ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
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JULIA BARD recommends an event showcasing the diversity of Jewish thought and debate in the past and in today’s tumultuous times
By making it simpler to support workers in struggle, Strike Map’s new Solidarity Fund aims to strengthen strikes when they need it most, write ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER
ANSELM ELDERGILL explains why the rule of law is fundamental to our liberty and welfare
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Thousands of remarkable Britons left ordinary lives behind to join the struggle against Franco. Here is a snapshot of those who answered the call
The present drive to war is a cynical and deliberate diversion from deteriorating living standards, argues MATT KERR
IT’S Hanukah, the Jewish festival of lights and enlightenment. At this time, we commemorate the Maccabean Revolt — a guerilla struggle by ordinary Jews for their right to self-determination against pressure to assimilate from Greek imperial authorities and the Hellenised priests of their own community.
Of course this story is interpreted in many ways, and people from the whole range of Jewish views, conservative and liberal, reformist and revolutionary, nationalist and internationalist, like the rabbis arguing in ancient times, all assert that it validates their conflicting perspectives.
For radical Jews, this diversity and discussion, the argument and teasing out of ideas, is our precious heritage.
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