Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Kick the profiteers out of our NHS
RICHARD BURGON MP warns that the Tories new Health and Care Bill is really about ensuring an even greater role for private companies in our NHS
Protesters outside BBC Broadcasting House in central London, as marches and rallies form across the country calling for a 15% pay rise for NHS workers and an increase in NHS funding, in September 2020
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
AGAINST the backdrop of the deepest health crisis in decades, the Tories have launched a dangerous NHS Bill. The Health and Care Bill, debated in Parliament this week, should really be called the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill.
This Bill opens the door for private corporations to sit on local health boards which make critical decisions about NHS budgets and services.
It also allows NHS bodies to award contracts to private healthcare providers with even less scrutiny and transparency than they do now.
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