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The race for Covid-19 vaccine: Is this the end of the pandemic?

It was recently announced by a news release that Pfizer and BioNTech have developed a vaccine for Covid-19 that showed it was 95% effective in preventing the disease. Moderna, another pharmaceutical company, announced it had developed a vaccine using a similar technology with 94.5 % effectiveness. AstraZeneca – Oxford vaccine developers, also said their data […]

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Gender-based Violence: A Second pandemic in the Shadow of Covid

The UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is marked every year on 25 November to ‘combat and raise awareness of gender-based violence against women and girls’. Gender-based violence is defined as physical, sexual, or psychological harm and includes intimate partner violence, sexual violence and harassment, human trafficking, female genital mutilation (FGM) […]

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RMT at a crossroads: for a democratic, fighting trade union!

RMT has had a proud and rich history of being a strong left-led, fighting, militant, members-led union and even more so during the period of office of the late great, former General Secretary Bob Crow, who sadly passed away in 2014. Bob was instrumental in the formation of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC, […]

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