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A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT
The sudden decision to devolve Greater Manchester’s NHS budget might sound superficially ‘democratic.’ In reality it’s anything but, says LISA NANDY
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
JUST a few short weeks before Parliament dissolved for the election, George Osborne announced that Greater Manchester’s £6 billion health budget was to be devolved.
It came as a surprise, not least because just a few weeks before, in a two-week consultation about the proposal to impose a mayor on Greater Manchester, the government had failed to mention the NHS at all.
It was a huge omission for such a fundamental transfer of power. Devolution can and should bring significant benefits to regions like mine.
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