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Reuters served as a channel for the UK Foreign Office to covertly fund an Egyptian outlet that clamored for the overthrow of the country’s first democratically elected leader, leaked documents show. This July 3 marks the 10th anniversary of Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah Sisi’s violent seizure of power in Cairo. The first democratically elected leader in 5000 years of Egyptian history, Mohamed Morsi, was swept from office, his supporters were massacred by the hundreds, and he ultimately died […]

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With the 20th anniversary of Australian intervention in the Solomons this month, Michael Wesley’s new book is a useful addition to our knowledge of how Australian imperialism works in the region.

The post Why Australian troops went to the Solomons—an inside view on Australian imperialism appeared first on Solidarity Online.

In the decades before the National Health Service (NHS), healthcare in Britain was guided by very different ideas. Most of the country’s hospitals were grim Victorian centres for the destitute, derived from workhouse infirmaries established under the Poor Law. An 1834 statute regarded poverty as a moral failing that should be punished with hard labour. […]

75 years after the creation of the NHS, there is no scarcity of praise for the greatest social achievement in Britain’s history – but readers of the mainstream press today will find precious little mention of its socialist roots. Aneurin Bevan, the minister responsible for its creation and former editor of this magazine, suffered from […]

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