Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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From self to non-self
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL explain how stem-cell transplants provide new immune systems for those who need them
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 coming weeks and months, the National Health Service will be tested to its limits, striving to save as many patients as possible who are seriously ill due to the coronavirus.
The surges in intensive-care patient numbers will cause major disruption to the routine work of the NHS, which includes crucial life-saving procedures.
One such procedure that has been particularly affected by international travel disruption has been stem-cell donation, for the treatment of conditions such as blood cancer.
Once the donation has been made, the stem cells need to be transplanted into the recipient within 72 hours.
Our immune system uses special structures on the surfaces of cells called antigens to recognise cells that belong to our own body (“self”).
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