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
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The SNP government is running Scotland's NHS into the ground
A focus on ‘service redesign' to solve issues in health and social care won’t address the core problems of understaffing and underfunding, warns STEPHEN LOW
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
LAST WEEK senior doctors in A&E departments in NHS Grampian went public about staff shortages which they claimed were causing unacceptable delays and avoidable deaths.
The Aberdeen- and Elgin-based doctors say their complaints of lack of senior staff have been ignored since 2021 and have now resorted to using the formal whistleblowing structure to try and get something done.
It’s a stark example of the pressures in NHS Scotland. Pressures the Scottish government shows little sign of being able to tackle.
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