ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
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Parliamentary democracy: a 200-year crisis of legitimacy
As our nation faces yet another unelected leader, how about we return to the other great avenues of enacting our democratic will, writes KEITH FLETT
DEMOCRACY? Unelected Sunak
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
AS the TUC met in Brighton, figures were released by Megaphone that showed that in my area of north London 50 per cent of people were spending less on food and a similar number had cut back on heating as colder weather arrives. Meanwhile over 15 per cent had skipped meals they could no longer afford to eat.
This situation is not just the result of the disastrous hard-right experiment that was “Trussonomics,” but of 12 years of Tory austerity focused.
As Liz Truss departed, the focus was not on a general election but on who the next Tory prime minister who would run things for the few, not the many, should be.
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