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We can't beat back the scourge of NHS outsourcing alone
UVW is organising what could be the longest strike of non-clinical staff in the NHS’s history, write PETROS ELIA and KANE SHAW. Here they call for greater co-operation between unions
UVW members outside St Mary's Hospital
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
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
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
OUR union, United Voices of the World (UVW), is engaged in several industrial disputes that have put us into direct conflict with organisations like the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Parks, the University of Greenwich, the University of East London, St George’s University, 200 Gray’s Inn Road (the headquarters of ITV, ITN and Channel 4) and the National Health Service.
These disputes are vitally important; they bear witness to migrant workers taking on an outsourcing model which shamelessly draws its profit from the racist exploitation of migrant workers.
But despite this importance, not all of them share the same significance.
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