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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Scrap Serco’s Test and Trace: Fund public health not private profit
With Serco’s contact tracing contract ending on May 17, JOAN TWELVES explains why now is the time to apply pressure for it not to be renewed
A Zero Covid rally at Serco HQ in London in December last year
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
THIRTY-SEVEN billion pounds. £37,000,000,000. Yes, that’s billion, not million.
That’s how much the government has thrown at the misleadingly named, centralised, outsourced “NHS” test-and-trace operation.
That’s three times the £13bn allocated to the hugely successful, public-sector-run vaccination programme.
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Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
