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Don’t let the socialist moment pass us by
CJ ATKINS asks whether US citizens’ curiosity about the concept of socialism and what it could mean for the country will out live Bernie Sanders’s campaign
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, greets his audience after a campaign rally in Springfield, Virginia
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
IT STARTED with the near collapse of the economy in 2008-9 when millions lost their homes and jobs and started questioning the status quo.
Discussion about it picked up again with the Occupy Wall Street movement as young people realised the future they faced — low-wage jobs, endless student debt — was anything but bright.
Then, it emerged more fully into the open with the insurgent campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2016. Now, as it looks like the independent senator might actually win the Democratic nomination, it’s a topic that everyone seems to be talking about: socialism.
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