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Big pharma must be forced to prioritise welfare of humanity
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how lobbying by powerful cartels buys favour from politicians to the detriment of public health
Nurses inoculate a boy against Covid-19 in Uruguay. 'Making sure that the richest nations do the right thing and take all possible steps to get more vaccines into more arms in the global South is the most immediate thing that needs to happen'
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
WHILE the richest nations of the world debate whether or not a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is required, many people in the global South are yet to receive even their first jab.
Vaccine apartheid is real. This is not a figment of the imagination or some kind of special pleading. Real people are dying because of the hoarding of vaccine doses by the richest nations.
Even when offered the opportunity to fix this by making big pharma, the powerful pharmaceutical companies, share their vaccine patents and technologies, the rich nations choose not to.
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