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Privatising children’s care homes
When it comes to care homes it’s the same cynical Tory tactic of cutting public funding for the state-run service so that privateers can swoop in to provide a degraded service, writes STEVEN WALKER
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
NEWS that the number of children in care in England could reach almost 100,000 by 2025, comes in timely fashion after November’s latest Children in Need appeal.
The harsh reality on the front line of Tory cuts and privatisation will cut through the glitzy, celebrity-saturated telethon, which has seen the amount raised on the night drop every year since 2016.
New county council research reveals that the projected number of children in care would represent a 36 per cent rise since the Tories came to power.
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