A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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REBUILDING THE NHS FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Labour’s plan offers a positive vision of what the NHS can be in a century when people’s needs have changed, writes ANDY BURNHAM
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
THE time has come for the party which created the NHS to set out how it can be secured in the 21st century as a public service which puts people before profits.
It is no exaggeration to say that the 2015-20 parliament will determine the future of the NHS.
If the looming funding pressures combine with David Cameron’s ideological prescription, it could create a toxic medicine that may well finish the patient off.
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