IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
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Front-line NHS staff deserve our gratitude, not abuse
TOM KING fears that, much as we might hope otherwise, the sad reality is that workers in our hard-pressed and short-staffed health service can expect some serious hostility as this pandemic sweeps the land
STEPHEN ARNELL looks at some of the notorious political corruption cases from British history
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History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
As the US marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, the People’s World Editorial Collective argues that the real legacy of 1776 lies not in official celebrations but in centuries of popular struggles to make democracy a reality for all
LAST Thursday evening, just like the week before, tens of thousands of people across Britain, from their front doors, windows and balconies, gave NHS and care workers a massive round of applause.
It was a nationwide celebration of the efforts being made, and the individual risks being taken, to treat the rapidly growing number of people suffering with, and dying from, Covid-19.
It was also a very public and uncharacteristic display of appreciation — “everyone was very touched,” said my mum, a practice nurse, when she got home the following day — for a health service whose workers need all the support they can get.
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