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The NHS is in terminal decline. Who is brave enough to act?
On the eve of the election, JOHN LISTER points out the people killing our health service — a sinister cast of inept yet greedy privateer bosses and ideologue MPs
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN THE countdown to polling day, many of us will be mighty tired of being lied to, as parties compete to show themselves even less trustworthy than we thought.
The biggest lie underpinning both the Tory-led coalition’s offensive against welfare and public services and Labour’s feeble and hesitant response has been that austerity policies have been and remain “necessary” to tackle a disastrous financial mess.
In fact, the main crisis had been resolved by 2010: the public sector had bailed out the banks. Then Tory cuts paralysed a growing economy.
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