In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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Health privatisation is wrecking Ukraine's ability to fight Covid-19
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko talks to Ukrainian Communist Party leader PETRO SYMONENKO about the destruction of the country’s healthcare system through ‘the guillotine of medical reform’ and what this means for the people amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko
Thousands of jobs are at risk across higher education, yet government funding appears only when universities can be linked to military objectives, says JO GRADY, in the run-up to the Stop the War International Conference this Saturday
The Wye, Usk, Arrow and Lugg were once treasured for their clean waters – today, pollution and corporate excess are fuelling demands for a return to public ownership, says MARK SEDDON
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Rising support for Farage’s party reflects Labour’s failure to defend working-class living standards or offer a credible alternative to neoliberal decline, says JOSEPH MILLS
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
UKRAINIAN doctors have slammed “war” conditions in its hospitals as they struggle to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
Britain’s NHS is struggling due to years of cuts — resulting in chronic staffing shortages — and the impact of Andrew Lansley’s privatising 2012 Health and Social Care Act on healthcare supplies. But in Ukraine, crippling healthcare “reform” is taking place even as the pandemic rages.
The marketising reforms are resulting in mass hospital closures, as the government passes responsibility for paying utility bills to individual hospitals rather than covering them.
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