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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On International Nurses Day we thank nurses for their priceless contribution to society
Nurses’ safety, rights and working conditions must be protected like never before, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
An infection control nurse looks out from a Covid-19 recovery ward in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
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
PRIOR to becoming a trade union officer, I was a nurse working on the front lines of the NHS for 28 years.
Many in my cohort in 1990 were migrant women, mostly Irish, just like me.
In those days the registered general nurse (RGN) was a three-year apprenticeship where you earned your stripes through hard work on a variety of in-patient wards.
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