History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
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SOLOMON HUGHES explores the growth of a new security-industrial complex and its unique mixture of the sinister and the incompetent
As the US marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, the People’s World Editorial Collective argues that the real legacy of 1776 lies not in official celebrations but in centuries of popular struggles to make democracy a reality for all
Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis, writes ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
By making it simpler to support workers in struggle, Strike Map’s new Solidarity Fund aims to strengthen strikes when they need it most, write ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Last month the newspapers had a brief flurry about an immigration computer "shambles."
Labour's Yvette Cooper accused Home Secretary Theresa May of presiding over a "catalogue of chaos" because the "e-borders" system didn't work.
E-borders is supposed to check people in and out of the country and pass on electronic messages to crimebusting officers.
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