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The "national debt": who is owed what
LESLIE MASTERS
Explains what lies behind the drive to reduce the national debt through huge public spending cuts.
Cuts on war spending rarely rate a mention.
ALEX DAVIDSON
Argues that Britain and the rest of the world are wasting vast sums of money on war and weapons.
Cameron and Clegg's pre-arranged pact
MARTIN S. GIBSON
Reflects on the issues and outcome of the UK General Election on Thursday 6 May.
China and the USA: partners or rivals?
Dr. PAUL SUTTON
Reports.
Feast and famine: profiteering from food
HELEN CHRISTOPHER
Looks at the global food industry and how Tesco, Asda and Walmart are restructuring their businesses to make even more billions from food.
Argentina's World Cup squad support the Mothers of the "disappeared"
Goldman Sachs: Mammon is God
ALEX MITCHELL
Looks at the fraud charge pending against the investment bank.
Sharon Shoesmith and the baby P case
JANE LINDSAY
Reviews the situation facing social workers.
A life for freedom in South Africa
TONY DYKES
Reviews Denis Goldbergs autobiography.
The Grenada 17 are all finally released
PAT TURNBULL
Reports on Grenada's 1979 revolution and the events that led up to the US invasion in 1983.
Darwin and materialist natural science
CLEMENS DUTT
Reprint of his article in Labour Monthly in 1959.
Readers' Letters
HELMUT WAGNER and WILLIE ANDERSON
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