LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from the one of 2,700 protests against the Trump government’s power grabs, on a day when seven million people defied fear-mongering in a outpouring of joy and hope in what might be the biggest protest in US history
Wider meanings of the Indian farmers’ movement
The farmers’ protests have provided much needed energy and hope to the oppressed of India and beyond, writes BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK of the University of Glasgow
Farmers and their supporters protest against new farm laws in Mumbai
ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
Our trust makes 3,200 home visits caring for 227 patients despite 198 Israeli checkpoints around Bethlehem; this compassion which transcends boundaries has lessons for the debate on end-of-life care in Britain too, writes FATHER GEOFF BOTTOMS
There is no chance of defending and renewing an NHS which is still savagely undermined by having to pay mark-ups of up to 23,000 per cent to Big Pharma — let’s take control of pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, writes DREW GILCHRIST
The polling is looking good for the left’s choice, writes ERNEST WALKER, but there are farcical electoral oddities that are throwing up dangers to the campaign
Lewisham People’s Assembly organiser BEN WOODWARD reports on uproar in south London as campaigners condemn an ‘undemocratic stitch-up’ after the council waved through redevelopment of a vibrant shopping centre into ‘luxury flats’
IN THE darkness of night, the Hindutva fascists and their trained henchmen are trying to attack Indian farmers’ protests and provoke violence with the help of police.
The objective of the BJP government is to discredit the Indian farmers’ peaceful and democratic movements.
All slanderous campaigns by the ruling classes against the farmers’ movements have failed.
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