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No-one is safe until everyone is safe
DIANE ABBOTT makes the case for a people’s vaccine to help get the virus under control across the world, not just in the wealthy West
A relative of a person who died of Covid-19 mourns at a crematorium in Jammu, India
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE appalling scenes in India are a shocking reminder of the catastrophic effects of failing to suppress the coronavirus.
Even with the best will in the world, in a country as poor as India, with low levels of healthcare and often overcrowded living and working conditions, there was always a risk that this might happen.
But the situation has been clearly exacerbated by following the model of allowing the virus to freely circulate.
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