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Privatisation: Chaos on the railways
Disgraced privateer Serco and homophobic bus tycoon Brian Souter are among those growing fat on our rail system. It’s got to stop, says JAMES WALSH
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
A VAST outsourcing company, which has grown fat on contracts to run various parts of the state over the past decade, is the latest to be handed a section of Britain’s railways.
It is better known for charging the government for non-existent tagged prisoners when it ran probation sevices, or for its appalling performance running NHS services in Cornwall.
The company, aware of its terrible corporate record, is terribly coy.
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