The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
We must get through this winter together - or many will not get through it at all
Unison assistant general secretary ROGER McKENZIE says a fundamental change of approach is needed to tackle this health crisis
Public service workers have amassed a huge body of experience, and undergone huge risks to their lives during the pandemic — ow that winter is here, it is time for them to be listened to.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
MAT COWARD recommends a crop that keeps growing well under drought conditions
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
IN WUHAN, devastated by the coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of this year, nightclubs are open again. We are having to enter a partial second lockdown next week because of politics as much as epidemiology.
At the beginning of the outbreak Boris Johnson boasted about being able to profit by being more careless than other countries. The government locked down too late, and when it did, it inherited a health service shredded by cuts and privatisation. Rather than rapidly raising state capacity, it adopted the same strategy that has failed on every major public project from universal credit to railways – huge bungs for profiteers with a record of failure but close links to the Conservative Party.
Our test and trace system is now being operated by teenagers on the minimum wage in roles intended for experienced clinicians at the level of paramedics or assistant psychologists.
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