DIANE ABBOTT looks at how a declining US has resorted to globalised violence to salvage any vestiges of political and economic hegemony
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On International Nurses Day we thank nurses for their priceless contribution to society
Nurses’ safety, rights and working conditions must be protected like never before, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
An infection control nurse looks out from a Covid-19 recovery ward in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon is just the latest of its recurring cycles of aggression in the region, says VIJAY PRASHAD
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
The Pontiff has expressed outspoken opposition to war and ‘inhuman’ policies on immigration, undermining the president’s credibility among both allies and supporters alike, says GEOFF BOTTOMS
Blending history, film and debate, the Bristol Radical History Festival will shine a light on class and resistance next weekend. LYNNE WALSH previews what’s on offer
PRIOR to becoming a trade union officer, I was a nurse working on the front lines of the NHS for 28 years.
Many in my cohort in 1990 were migrant women, mostly Irish, just like me.
In those days the registered general nurse (RGN) was a three-year apprenticeship where you earned your stripes through hard work on a variety of in-patient wards.
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