Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Leprosy in the wild
New research shows that chimpanzees can catch leprosy, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
New research shows that chimpanzees can be susceptible to leprosy
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
IN THE current coronavirus pandemic it’s easy to forget that other diseases still persist, yet even with the disruptions of working from home and fluctuating lockdowns, scientists are still working on new research.
In the last week a team of researchers from across the world reported the first ever recorded cases of leprosy in wild chimpanzees.
Wild chimpanzees have now conclusively joined a short but diverse list of animals that are known to be affected by forms of leprosy, including nine-banded armadillos and red squirrels.
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