ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
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Don't let Covid-19 cover up miners' deaths
The coronavirus pandemic is causing bereaved mining families to lose compensation for death from industrial diseases, says CHRIS KITCHEN, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers
PHIL KATZ explains how ‘Cultures in Resistance’ is forging a new cultural manifesto
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
LUNG diseases are a legacy suffered by tens of thousands of former coal miners as a result of their time working in the industry.
Hard-fought agreements have been won by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to compensate the families of former mineworkers who die from afflictions such as emphysema, bronchitis, pneumoconiosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
But the Covid-19 pandemic is leading to compensation being denied to many families, because deaths are being attributed to the virus, rather than to underlying industrial diseases.
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