China’s all-answer’s ‘12345’ hotline From China, ROGER McKENZIE reports on the nation’s remarkable 24-hour switchboard that fields everything from travel queries to feedback and complaints about the running of society
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Love of animals leads to a union organising drive Employees at Texas shelter Pets Alive joined forces with the Machinists union, seeking better conditions for both themselves and the animals they passionately care for, reports MARK GRUENBERG
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Opinion Rejecting divide-and-rule tactics against the NHS IAIN MOONEY reports on Unison members’ reaction to government proposals to put nursing staff in different pay categories
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Kenova: bringing it out of the shadows Even as Operation Kenova unveils unsettling truths, questions still remain over the role of British state actors in atrocities during the troubles in Northern Ireland — a new and deeper inquiry is needed, writes ERNEST WALKER
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Aid into Gaza: Israel’s sadistic games SOLOMON HUGHES investigates the machinations of the Israeli state and to what extent the headline ‘aid drops’ by sea and air are diversion tactics from its grim starvation plan to drive Palestinians from Gaza
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 State pensions: a diminishing ‘benefit’ under the Tories What was once common sense to both major parties – that we all pay a little of our wages to receive a pension when we are too old to work – has been viciously undermined by decades of neoliberalism, explains NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 Gardening Rediscover the mighty marrow Previously staple of all our gardens, the neglected marrow is making a culinary comeback, offering versatile flavours and textures when picked and prepared properly – so let your courgettes live large, writes MAT COWARD
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 Chile on strike: worker anger spills over El Siglo’s Ursula Fuentes Rivera speaks to ERIC CAMPOS, the CUT (Chile’s TUC) general secretary, on the eve of the general strike
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 The unremarkable death of migrants in the Sahara Desert VIJAY PRASHAD reports on the latest figures on migrant deaths from the UN International Organisation of Migration and the under-reported deaths of migrants crossing the Sahara
Wednesday 10th Apr 2024 Killing humanitarian workers as a strategy: Israel's endgame in Gaza RAMZY BAROUD explains that Israel isn’t making mistakes, even due to callous carelessness — killing aid workers is part of a wider plan to make life in northern Gaza impossible, to facilitate ethnic cleansing
Wednesday 10th Apr 2024 Science and Society Earthquake deaths: the dividing line on fault lines The low death toll and damage from a recent earthquake in Taiwan highlights global inequality in preparing for natural disasters, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT