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Britain is seeing a crisis in child mental health and a collapse in services
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
AS THE crisis in children and young people's mental health services deepens during 70th anniversary celebrations of the NHS, Richard Branson’s Virgin health company has won £2 million in taxpayers’ cash in a legal settlement.
Virgin sued an NHS trust after losing an £82m contract bid. Virgin now runs NHS Devon’s child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS), while CAMHS staff all over Britain are collapsing under the stress of increased demand for help from disturbed young people, especially during the school and university exam season.
Virgin Care won a record £1 billion of NHS contracts last year, as £3.1bn of health services were privatised despite a government pledge to reduce the proportion of care provided by private companies.
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