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A tale of two manifestos
STEPHEN LOW compares the ‘smoke and mirrors’ policy proposals of the SNP to Labour’s groundbreaking template for real change
WRITING ON THE WALL: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon meets voters at the Lochside Community Centre in Dumfries
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
The SNP have published their manifesto. Its 50 pages paint a picture of a party stuck in the past and concerned more with changing flags than changing lives.
The contrast with the forward-looking radicalism of Scottish Labour’s manifesto couldn’t be clearer.
Indeed even being clear is something that separates the two documents.
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