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
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Let Cuba live!
Cuba’s achievements in spite of the blockade are phenomenal – imagine what it could do if the blockade were lifted, says NATASHA HICKMAN
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
AS the US blockade enters its 60th year, one can only imagine the strides Cuba could have made at home and internationally if it had not been held back by vicious economic warfare and an unrelenting policy of intervention from its northern neighbour.
As of December 1, Cuba had fully vaccinated more than 83 per cent of its population, including almost two million children over two years old.
Over 10.5 million Cubans (93 per cent of the population) have received at least one dose of the country’s two homegrown vaccines, and booster jabs are currently being administered to the most vulnerable groups. Clinical trials of a nasally administered vaccine are also under way.
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