The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Chronic-pain patients are worried about new guidelines that are re-categorising their conditions and potentially limiting their access to vital treatments, reports RUTH HUNT
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
FOR those who suffer from untreated chronic pain it can make every minute and every hour a herculean task to get through. It can trap them inside, isolated and often in bed.
So, when effective pain relief is found, which enables the person to break free from the bedroom-cell, it’s not surprising the thought of it being removed causes anguish.
That explains why there is so much consternation about the recent intervention by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) regarding how the NHS should treat chronic pain, in particular pain that has an unclear cause.
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