Lead story

Clegg betrays his party and NHS

by Daphne Liddle

PATIENTS don’t want it; doctors don’t want it; nurses don’t want it; other health workers and professionals don’t want it and the general public don’t want it.

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Syrian army drives out rebels

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

SYRIAN troops have driven reactionary Muslim Brotherhood rebels out of Idlib, a key town near the Turkish border that has been an important conduit for covert Nato arms supplies to the rebels fighting to overthrow the Baathist government in Damascus.

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Editorial

The mentality of war

THE MASSACRE of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar province in Afghanistan has shocked the world but it is only the tip of the iceberg of the suffering of the Afghan people at the hands of the Nato occupying forces. And atrocities like this inevitably go hand in hand with any imperialist invasion and occupation.

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