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
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NHS privatisation — why we must unite to oppose it
Now is the time to unite outsourced workers’ demands to become NHS employees, on NHS pay and conditions, with the fight to stop the privatisation of our health service altogether, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
NHS workers get official praise and commemorative portraits - but the government is continuing to destroy the foundations of our public health service
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
THE pillaging of NHS funds and the demoralisation of hospital workers by the private sector is commonplace throughout the NHS.
Increasingly the private sector is becoming more embedded in our NHS as services are separated off and tendered out to the lowest bidder.
The special relationship with the NHS facilities contract manager who is as hostile to the presence of active unions, as the private company is the entrance ticket to the NHS goldmine.
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