Cuba, despite the privations, remains a beacon of sovereignty and resistance to imperialism, writes BERNARD REGAN
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Government is indifferent to national calamity
State intervention has been too little, too late, as a drugs epidemic decimates working-class communities across Scotland, writes NEIL FINDLAY
Honduras may not be as much in the spotlight as Venezuela and Cuba right now, but Trump's circling vultures are making their move. JOHN PERRY reports
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
With the illegitimate partition of Palestine, and inflicting ongoing terror on Palestinians, Israel and the US continue to smash down the basic principles of democracy
Despite opposition from Greenland’s people and Denmark, Washington intends to control the Arctic territory one way or another. Strategic dominance, mineral wealth and military power are the driving forces at play, writes ROGER McKENZIE
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
ON Monday December 14, on the eve of the publication of the latest and much-delayed Scottish drugs deaths statistics, I hosted a Zoom meeting, along with academics from the University of the West of Scotland.
Ian McPhee and Barry Sheridan have worked on drugs and social policy for many years and know all about the crisis that is causing so much carnage in working-class communities across Scotland.
At that meeting held on a Monday afternoon in December, 300 people joined us — an astonishing number, showing the huge concern there is at Scotland’s national shame as the drugs death capital of the developed world.
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