Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Jeremy Corbyn has a long and honourable record of opposing fascism, racism and anti-semitism
KEITH FLETT recalls how the Labour leader played an active part in organising against and resisting the National Front in the late ’70s
Jeremy Corbyn speaks during an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb, in Tavistock Square, London in 2015
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
WE have heard a lot from some in recent days about how Jeremy Corbyn overlooks anti-semitism or excuses it.
Yet when one looks at many of those making such points there appears to be an absence of actual active opposition to those who both hold such views in Britain and act on them.
That is not something that can be said about Corbyn.
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