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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A new age of catastrophe?
We can no longer take peace for granted: until WWI there had not been a major war for 100 years. Ukraine is the first in decades that draws in so many different nations that we could be looking at a similar disaster to 1914, warns KEITH FLETT
At one level, the current hostilities in Ukraine are about that country seeking to protect its existence from Putin's aggression — but at another level, the involvement of Nato, controlled by the US suggests another conflict alarmingly similar to that which led to WWI.
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
A RECENT comment by Vladimir Putin that he was being cancelled in the same way that JK Rowling claims to be caused much social media comment. Of course neither individual is short of media outlets to carry their often controversial thoughts.
Putin’s main audience for the comment however was not Twitter users in Britain, but a domestic one. Russia under his leadership is hostile to any display of sexuality that is not heterosexual. It is unfortunately very far from the only country to take this approach but Putin was making a comparison with what he sees as a more tolerant Western Europe.
However, the reference to JK Rowling was interesting because it underlined the hypocrisy of Putin’s perspective. He contrasted Russia with a “decadent” West but he and the very wealthy men and women who support him are often to be found as significant players in property, business and Tory politics in London. The current focus on Russian “oligarchs” in Britain, which sometimes verges on Russophobia, reflects the point.
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