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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PETER FROST has filled in what might be the last ever census form but he is looking at a wider count
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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
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DID you do your duty of the decade and fill in your census last Sunday? You won’t of course if you live in Scotland where, because of the pandemic, the census has been delayed for a year.
The census is a survey that has happened every 10 years and gives us a picture of all the people and households in Britain.
It is likely that the March 2022 census may be the last one ever for the ironic reason that the government collects all the information it needs from the many other sources of data it gathers on every one of us in normal day-to-day contacts.
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