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Commentary
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Struggle may change the Labour Party
MARTIN S. GIBSON
Reflects on the Labour Party leadership contest.
Unions unite to fight Tory coalition cuts
Charity: more take than give
HELEN CHRISTOPHER
Looks at charities, the so-called Big Society and imperialist aid.
Capitalist profits are rising again
PAT TURNBULL
Report on how big business is increasing profits during the recession.
Europe's workers are taking action
GINA NICHOLSON
Highlights how workers throughout Europe and the US are facing the same struggle.
Chilean miners and profits before people
DAN MORGAN
Writing from Santiago, Chile, reveals how the plight of the trapped miners has exposed the dangerous working conditions of Chile's mining industry.
Mercenaries in the war on terror
ALEX DAVIDSON
Investigates the growth of private security firms in Iraq and Afghanistan with the launch of the war on terror.
al-Megrahi is still a pawn in the US game
JAMES THOMSON
Reflects on the political furore that accompanied the first anniversary of the so-called Lockerbie bomber's release from a Scottish gaol.
Ahmedinejad never said, "Wipe Israel off the map".
The Concert: an anti-Communist farce
S. WORDFISH
Reviews the film and explores and debunks some of the anti-Soviet, anti-Communist myths that it presents.
We must live as if we will never die...
SIMON KORNER
Makes the case for reading the poetry of Nazim Hikmet.
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