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Asbestos: a bloody anniversary
Twenty years ago this month the use of asbestos was banned in Britain — but still thousands die every year from contact with the deadly mineral, writes LAURIE KAZAN-ALLEN
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
AUGUST 24, 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the British ban on asbestos, a substance which remains the cause of the country’s worst-ever occupational epidemic, killing thousands every year.
The Asbestos Prohibitions regulations signed by deputy prime minister John Prescott were implemented against a backdrop of a landmark World Trade Organisation dispute over a French asbestos ban and aggressive lobbying by British and international vested interests.
Legislation was laid before Parliament a month after the European Union had adopted similar legislation and during the dog days of the summer parliamentary recess.
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