While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Covid-19 and the socialist states
China, Vietnam, Cuba and Kerala, with a combined population of 1.5 billion, have lost 7,000 to Covid-19, but Britain, population 68 million, has over 62,000 deaths. STEWART McGILL explains why
A young supporter of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) joins a procession to celebrate their success in the December 2020 elections, in Kochi, Kerala, which has dealt with Covid-19 far more effectively than the rest of India
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
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Britain has a population 21 times smaller than China, yet it has seen 20 times as many cases of Covid-19 and almost 13 times as many deaths.
The World Health Organisation called China’s efforts “perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history.” Strict lockdowns and social media apps restricted people’s movements, thousands of military doctors and nurses were sent to the Wuhan epicentre, medical supplies, food and fuel were delivered on a massive scale.
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