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A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

The US agency sent the Guardian Weekly alongside 10m books including titles by Orwell and Solzhenitsyn by truck, yacht, balloon and in travellers’ luggage

Formidable foreign correspondent for the Guardian who covered major global events from the 1960s to the 90s, and commanded great respect from world leaders

The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits of protest – and the power of connecting across difference to change the world

Known by friends for his courage and ‘monstrous stubbornness’, Tusk will aim to deliver reform in the face of a divided electorate and a hostile president

Celeb fans include Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and Miranda Kerr.

Welcome to the first edition of our new On the Picket Line newsletter, where we take a deeper look at the biggest trade union stories of the week.

Solidarity Youth Movement held a meeting in Palakkad to express support for Palestine. Speakers raised slogans against "bulldozer Hindutva and apartheid Zionism". C.T. Suhaib, State president, said attempts were being made to resist divisive policies of those in power. Mohammad Makram Balawi, director general of League of Parliamentarians for Al…

Europe’s turn to the right now looks reversible, while Donald Tusk’s victory leaves Viktor Orbán politically isolated, says political scientist and author Ivan Krastev