Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
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A human right to health
FAYE LIPSON explores Fire in the Blood, a documentary exposing the corporate genocide of
Aids drug patenting
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
FIRE in the Blood is a work of quiet, dignified magnitude.
Shown at the finale of last weekend’s Centre for Investigative Journalism film festival at the University of Westminster, the 2013 documentary charts the rise of an alliance which saved unaccountable numbers of lives.
The tale of “medicine, monopoly and malice” exposes how Western governments acting on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry used drug patents to withhold cheap generic Aids treatments from Africa and the global South.
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