The media rarely discuss AIDS anymore, and when a news report does appear it usually is about a new drug that helps people stay alive longer or even about “the end of AIDS.” Many doctors and biomedical researchers think that findings in the last five years have opened the way to use antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV transmission and, in addition, see these drugs as prolonging the lives of the HIV-infected indefinitely.
China’s ongoing property crisis
15 November 2016, byIn late summer a sudden surge in the number of couples seeking a divorce was reported in Shanghai. This was not due to a high number of relationships suddenly falling apart. Instead, rumours were being circulated that the municipal government would soon introduce new tougher restrictions for the purchase of property, which favoured first time buyers and so couples were rushing to get a so called “paper divorce” before the changes took effect, in the hope that they would still be able to buy a second home more cheaply. This drastic action by many couples in Shanghai to the potential change in legislation was not the first such response of its kind, but one which once again goes to highlight some of the absurdities of the property market in China.
On Imperial Conundrums
14 November 2016, byTHE SWIRLING CRAZINESS and bizarre entertainments of the 2016 presidential election sometimes obscure how much the outgoing U.S. administration — and the next one taking office in January 2017 — face a set of global crises on a scale that’s hard to recall in recent history.
What does Trump’s victory mean for the Middle East?
11 November 2016, bySyrians and Palestinians to suffer most with the doors to refugees slammed while US-Israel relations are in question.
Build the Left to Defeat the Right
10 November 2016, byWe publish below a further article on the US Presidential election from the Steering Committee of Solidarity. Solidarity is a sympathising organisation of the Fourth International in the USA.
How could this monster win?
9 November 2016, byWe publish a further contribution on the US presidential election result, an editorial from the site of the International Socialist Orgnization (ISO) USA.
Politics Is the Solution
9 November 2016, byAs a first reaction to the result of the US presidential election we are publishing an editorial from the radical left US magazine Jacobin.
For a united front saying No this autumn
8 November 2016, byThis autumn’s political and social battle with its various protagonists is becoming clearer
Only the Privileged Can Afford Hillary Clinton – “A vote for Jill Stein is not a wasted vote”!
7 November 2016, byIt’s that time again in the presidential election cycle when the scolds of institutionalized liberalism are out in force to bully people into voting for the perennial corporate Democrat in order to stop the perennially worse corporate Republican. Paul Krugman. Robert Reich. Ben Jealous. Dan Savage. Michael Moore. Joy Reid. Bernie Sanders. Tom Toles. In These Times. The Nation. The Root. Daily Kos. Rolling Stone. The New York Times.