As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
We must restore and expand the NHS
If we want to save our 75-year-old state-run healthcare system, remembering and recognition are the answer and not ‘reform’ or worker exploitation, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
People gather on Warren Street in London, ahead of a Support the Strikes march in solidarity with nurses, junior doctors and other NHS staff, March 2023
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
AS we mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS this week, at such a distance in time from its founding it’s easy to skim over the scale of the challenges that the Labour government had to overcome to achieve it — and if we were to believe the majority of political and media narrators, the challenges it now faces require more or less all of its founding principles to be undone to “save” it.
We have been told for more than a decade now by successive Conservative governments that the investment required to maintain the NHS would be “unsustainable” — without the endless series of Tory “reforms,” of course.
At the same time, we’re also told ad nauseam that the Tories are, in fact, putting “record” sums into the NHS — the politicians and talking heads always leave out that a penny over the last budget would be a “record” and yet the NHS budget has faced almost unbroken real-terms cuts disguised as “records.”
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
The Met Police arrested a staggering 890 people, many elderly, disabled, and even blind in a single demonstration — all to back up the government’s unhinged campaign against non-violent civil disobedience at the behest of Israel, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
CLAUDIA WEBBE says a UN agency’s finding that Gaza’s famine, killing up to 400 people a day, is entirely man-made must prompt a renewed revolt against our government’s complicity in this horror
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
