Latest editorial
Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
A human right to health
FAYE LIPSON explores Fire in the Blood, a documentary exposing the corporate genocide of
Aids drug patenting
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
FIRE in the Blood is a work of quiet, dignified magnitude.
Shown at the finale of last weekend’s Centre for Investigative Journalism film festival at the University of Westminster, the 2013 documentary charts the rise of an alliance which saved unaccountable numbers of lives.
The tale of “medicine, monopoly and malice” exposes how Western governments acting on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry used drug patents to withhold cheap generic Aids treatments from Africa and the global South.
Similar stories
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS