Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Pay workers, not privateers
HELEN O’CONNOR looks at how private firms supplying drugs
to the NHS have their hands up to the elbows in NHS tills
JUST DEMANDS: NHS workers in St James’s Park, London, observe a two minutes’ silence for colleagues who died from Covid-19 as part of a national protest over pay
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The money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IT IS easy to understand that the promise of a vaccine for the deadly virus that has rapidly changed the entire way we are living in 2020 offers so much hope for so many.
There is a widespread and genuine desire to end the growing nightmare of an ever-increasing death toll and put the shame of the fact that we have the highest death toll in Europe behind the country for good.
The job losses which have left thousands of families up and down the country struggling for the most basic necessities of living must be ended as a matter of urgency. The pain and isolation of lockdown, where people cannot see friends and family face to face, is leaving emotional scars on the mental health and wellbeing of so many people. The most isolated and vulnerable people are the ones suffering the worst impact of this.
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