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Features | Thursday 22nd Jul 2021 Halfon’s ‘white privilege’ dead cat has been eviscerated by the Social Mobility Commission
Thursday 22nd Jul 2021 Socialism’s increasingly popular — but Labour is not With faith in social mobility dropping, support for left policies is high. Starmer’s mission is not to harness this, but head it off, explains NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 22nd Jul 2021 Health unions are uniting for militant collective action There is a growing awareness that protecting front-line NHS staff is integral to the struggle to keep healthcare free in this country, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
Thursday 22nd Jul 2021 The recent unrest in Cuba: a textbook example of fake news and media warfare MARC VANDEPITTE explains how forces outside the island helped start the unrest and why the Western media then misrepresented events as they unfolded
Thursday 22nd Jul 2021 Boris Johnson’s actions are racist — there’s no need to selectively quote him The PM does not care about racial minorities or humanity in general and the case against him is overwhelming: so why does the left and labour movement obsess over his use of offensive language as some kind of magic bullet instead of his actual crimes, asks EMILY WEIR
Wednesday 21st Jul 2021 National Insurance hike will not help The proposed increase falls short of what's needed to cover the social care for the elderly and vulnerable, and will hit the poorest workers hardest. The real solutions rely on taxing the rich, explains JAMES MEADWAY
Wednesday 21st Jul 2021 Racism, football and Anglo-pessimism The disavowal of our country as lost to racism after the Euro Cup final is worryingly defeatist — the facts paint a much more positive picture and there’s everything left to fight for, writes HARRY DOBSON
Wednesday 21st Jul 2021 Doing serious damage: how sunburn leads to skin cancer Watch out sunbathers: photons of ultraviolet radiation can directly change the DNA inside living cells — with deadly results, write ROX MIDDLETON, JOEL HELLEWELL and LIAM SHAW
Tuesday 20th Jul 2021 Climate carnage is here and the unions must act We now face floods, fires and famines as has been predicted for decades. The leading capitalist governments are still not acting fast enough, if at all — so this November we must force their hands, writes STEPHEN SMELLIE
Tuesday 20th Jul 2021 For your and our freedom The government might call it ‘freedom day’ but we are far from free of Covid and the devastating effects of Tory mismanagement, writes DAVID ROSENBERG
Tuesday 20th Jul 2021 Pedal 4 Progress are back in the saddle again This year’s cycling challenge in honour of inspirational educator Mel Corry sees our intrepid fundraisers pedalling from Belfast to Cork, says PETER LAZENBY
