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It's time for a new debate on the structures of public services
The broken model of outsourcing and privatisation must be challenged, writes PAT RAFFERTY
Former Carillion boss Richard Howson has a camera shoved in his face
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
PICTURE it if you will. It’s a family gathering and those crowded round the living room decide it’s time for the parlour game Who am I? The opening clues are male, alive, and in the news recently.
“I used to be the chief executive of a major multinational company,” the player says. “It has plundered the public purse for billions in the last few years alone. I was chief executive for five years — in that time I made more than £6 million in wages, not counting my shares.
“When I was chief executive we paid out £400m in dividends to the shareholders. In the same time we short-changed the pension fund for the workers which is why it has a black hole in it of almost £600m.
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