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
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Hoarding by the West, in league with big pharma, has seen Africa in particular starved of Covid vaccines — we need an international health service free at the point of delivery, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Workers in Nairobi, Kenya, receive boxes of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine sent from the US, September 2021
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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
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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
THE stark reality is that of the more than five billion Covid-19 doses administered globally only 2 per cent have been received in the continent of Africa.
In the US, by comparison, around 52 per cent of people are fully vaccinated and in the European Union it is 57 per cent.
Scotland and Wales have vaccinated around 90 per cent of those aged 16 and over with at least one dose while England has reached around 88 per cent and Northern Ireland in the region of 86 per cent.
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