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
India’s true menace: the Hindutva virus
Modi’s Hindu fundamentalist ideology has massively accelerated the Covid-19 death toll,
writes BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
NIGHTMARE: Multiple funeral pyres for the victims of Covid-19 burn at hastily improvised sites for mass cremation across India
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’
INDIANS are struggling to find time to bury their dead due to the devastating effects of the second wave of Covid-19. The crematoriums in the state capitals are overflowing with dead bodies.
People are dying without oxygen and basic medical support. Cities like Delhi and Mumbai are struggling to cope with the rising number of infections and deaths.
These deaths and destitutions are products of a defunct BJP government led by Narendra Modi.
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