As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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Germ warfare threatens defenceless humanity
Antibiotics, once the saviours of humans and animals, are no longer providing protection and cure as overuse has lead to germs developing resistance. What’s to be done? asks PETER FROST
HUMANITY’S SAVIOUR: Selman Waksman
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
Antibiotic materials and substances have been used for centuries to treat infections, although we didn’t know that many infections were caused by bacteria.
Until the 20th century, bacterial infections that we now consider straightforward to treat like pneumonia were the largest cause of human death.
Various natural materials including honey, moulds and plant extracts had long been used to treat infections by some of the earliest civilisations . The ancient Egyptians, for example, used mouldy bread applied to infected wounds.
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