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Why the working class should oppose assisted death
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-working-class-should-oppose-assisted-death

Why the working class should oppose assisted death

Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted DeathKathleen Stock, The Bridge Street Press, £22KATHLEEN STOCK’s Do Not Go Gentle systematically dissects and debunks the assumptions, myths and lies constructed by Western liberal elites in their drive to impose state organised and institutionalised assisted death sold as freedom of choice, bodily autonomy and an inalienable “human right” based on compassion and humanity.

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Kevan Nelson 3d ago

Italian voters deal blow to Meloni with No to judicial overhaul
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/italian-voters-deal-blow-meloni-no-judicial-overhaul

Italian voters deal blow to Meloni with No to judicial overhaul

ITALIAN voters have decisively rejected prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s keynote judicial reform — knocking into touch the plans of her right-wing coalition — and disrupting her strategy for next year’s general elections that include tweaking electoral law including the direct election for prime minister.The opposition-backed “No” bloc took close to 54 per cent of the vote against 46 per cent. Turnout was higher than anticipated at almost 60 per cent with the youth vote decisive.

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Kevan Nelson 4d ago

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧4d ago

#Cuba Patients Are Dying Because of US Blockade, Doctors Say
Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the #US #oil blockade is upending even basic #medical care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/americas/cubas-health-system-us-oil-blockade.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.8--_.PtCMyh49KWiI&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes
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March 26, 2026

The #blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. #Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages.

Many ambulances are parked because drivers can’t find gas. Pharmacies are largely empty because the virtually bankrupt state is struggling to buy medicine.

Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel. Vaccine makers are searching for ingredients because flights that once carried them are canceled because of a lack of jet fuel. And refrigerated vaccine stocks could soon spoil if the blackouts continue.

#news #politics #USpol

Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say

Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care.

The New York Times

Kevan Nelson Mar 23

Endless conflict: the rising cost of war on Iran
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/endless-conflict-rising-cost-war-iran

Endless conflict: the rising cost of war on Iran

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s cavalier dismissal of worries about the economic impact of imperialism’s “permanent war” has been highlighted by his claim that the economic effects of the latest war on Iran is “a very small price to pay” for his now clearly failing strategy of regime change.If Trump thought he could secure Iranian government compliance with his demands comparable to the way the US has brought the Venezuelan ruling elite to heel, he is now proven mistaken.

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Kevan Nelson Mar 18

Communist Party Mar 18

Lumumba’s murder and Trump’s gangster-imperialism — the blood never dries

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lumumbas-murder-and-trumps-gangster-imperialism-blood-never-dries

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#congo #usa #belgium #trump #venezuela #cuba #iran

Lumumba’s murder and Trump’s gangster-imperialism — the blood never dries

COUNT Etienne Davignon being ordered to stand trial over his alleged role in the murder of Congolese revolutionary Patrice Lumumba is a long overdue step towards justice — but far more than that.The fate of the first prime minister of post-colonial Congo — overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United States and former colonial power Belgium and summarily shot — echoes down the ages.It dashed hopes across Africa and beyond that formal independence would mean genuine sovereignty, in which countries might control their own resources and choose their own alliances.

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Kevan Nelson Mar 17

Mark Burton Mar 17

Israel carrying out ‘mass expulsion of Palestinians’ in West Bank, UN warns | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/17/israel-carrying-out-mass-expulsion-of-palestinians-in-west-bank-un-warns?traffic_source=rss

#Palestine

Israel carrying out ‘mass expulsion of Palestinians’ in West Bank, UN warns

UN rights office says more than 36,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced in a year due to Israeli settler, army violence.

Al Jazeera

Kevan Nelson Mar 14

Capitalism is war. Socialism is peace
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/capitalism-war-socialism-peace

Capitalism is war. Socialism is peace

GERMAN revolutionary socialist Karl Liebknecht, who was shot in the back by Freikorps forces in Berlin’s Tiergarten in January 1919, described imperialism and militarism as destructive forces acting as a “cyclone” and a “vampire.”He stated: “Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.”

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Kevan Nelson Mar 12

German school strikes challenge Merz’s war agenda
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-school-strikes-challenge-merzs-war-agenda

German school strikes challenge Merz’s war agenda

A WEEK ago, on March 5, more than 50,000 German school students went on strike. In more than 130 cities the strikes — organised by a coalition, School Strikes Against Conscription, including the Green Youth, the communist SDAJ (Socialist German Working Youth), Jusos Young Socialists, the Falken and several trade union youth organisations — filled the streets with protesters against the war preparations of the German government. It followed an earlier school strike last year.

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Kevan Nelson Mar 11

How western capital weaponises art against Chinese socialism
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/how-western-capital-weaponises-art-against-chinese-socialism#

How western capital weaponises art against Chinese socialism

Thresholds of BecomingESEA Contemporary Art centreManchester★★☆☆☆ESEA CONTEMPORARY is a non-profit art centre in Manchester which presents and platforms artists that identify with and are informed by east and south-east Asian culture.

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Kevan Nelson Mar 11

Marco Rubio: An Uncontrollable Mythomaniac
https://www.radiohc.cu/en/41784-2/

“Marco Rubio: An Uncontrollable Mythomaniac” presented in Chile - Radio Habana Cuba

A collaboration between the Varsot Foundation of Chile and the Argentine media outlet Resumen Latinoamericano.

Radio Habana Cuba