In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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Big pharma must be forced to prioritise welfare of humanity
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how lobbying by powerful cartels buys favour from politicians to the detriment of public health
Nurses inoculate a boy against Covid-19 in Uruguay. 'Making sure that the richest nations do the right thing and take all possible steps to get more vaccines into more arms in the global South is the most immediate thing that needs to happen'
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Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
WHILE the richest nations of the world debate whether or not a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is required, many people in the global South are yet to receive even their first jab.
Vaccine apartheid is real. This is not a figment of the imagination or some kind of special pleading. Real people are dying because of the hoarding of vaccine doses by the richest nations.
Even when offered the opportunity to fix this by making big pharma, the powerful pharmaceutical companies, share their vaccine patents and technologies, the rich nations choose not to.
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